Re: Why is this not considered a hate crime?

Lighthope <lighthope@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:7o6dnQWwq7Q8BgranZ2dnUVZ_rjinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx:

Deadrat,

You are a confused person.

What's with the personal attacks? They only make your argument
sound weaker.

This is not a personal attack. You are confused both about the law
and the meanings of some English words. This doesn't make you bad;
it merely means you lack some understanding. Such may be remedied if
you don't take humbrage at my pointing this out.

It may help your position if you don't make personal statements
at all, regardless of your intention.

I could call you stupid, and that wouldn't help or hinder my position in
the least, since my argument is based on facts and logic. (An argument
that I notice you mostly snipped without response.)

But I'm not calling you stupid; I'm calling you confused. If you'd
prefer, I can rephrase, saying that your logic and language are both
confused and have led to an absurd conclusion.

Does that make you feel better? Does it strenghen my argument in your
eyes?

Consider contract murder. Do you claim that a hit man must hate his
victim?

Yes, I do. It doesn't matter whether or not the hit man knows
the victim or not.

It does seem my definition of hate is more broad that yours.

And this is why your statement is absurd. Your "definition" of hate is
your own private definition, something along the lines of "the state of
mind in which a person commits a crime." You have just allowed yourself
the latitude of defining your argument as correct at the expense of
intelligibility.

<quote author="Lewis Carroll" source="Alice in Wonderland">
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone," it
means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less."

"The question is," said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many
different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's
all."
</quote>

Legally speaking, you are likely to be more correct.

Ya think?

Where are you posting? misc.legal or misc.wishful.thinking? or
alt.through.the.looking%20glass?

But I think
the world would be a better place if my version were the more adopted.

I doubt it. Your version requires that we adapt our language to conform
to your personal beliefs. Direct your attention to George Orwell's essay
"Politics and the English Language."

Lighthope
.

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