Nope,what I'm saying is that I don't care if someone sets an *occupied structure* (A hay barn? C'mon,man!) alight because he hates the people inside or because he just likes firemen.Doing so,regardless of the underlying motive,puts people at risk and therefore must be considered to be a *very* serious crime.
By your reasoning you could be sentenced to extra time in prison for having assaulted me because I have red hair rather than because you were having a bad day.It flies in the face of the concept of "equal protection".
If you didn’t like that analogy, do you think someone spray-painting the side of a railway car to read “Mickey luvs Gina” is no different than someone spray-painting a swastika on the side of a synagogue?
They’re both simple vandalism charges?