[SADMILLIE]

I’m bored as hell with these black on white murders. Did you see the damned twitters? This was a racially motivated random killing of a wonderful young man from Australia!!

[uncitizen]

If only more people understood this...

[yldstrk]

when a productive individual is killed by thugs, I say the productive person was worth more than the thugs. In Trayvon’s case, the productive person survived and the thug died.

[oldbrowser]

but when we introduce value statements on human thought into our legal system, we bring in our own baggage and biases.

I agree with this.

But then I think, therefore if a ten year old kills someone they should face the death penalty right ?

[expat1000]

>>This trend of criminalizing thought - as noble as it seems in the case of hate crimes - is a dangerous precedent.

The ship of “thought crime” has long sailed. It was a “precedent” 25 years ago.