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Originally Posted by ThePits
There is no difference except the motive, the crimes are exactly the same, deal with the motives on sentencing
In both examples you end up with a burnt out shop and blown up people!
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Actually, that's exactly what they're doing... It is the nature of law that everything must be set in stone for it to even be dealt with properly.
Any single point in law is a valid arguable point, if you have the cajones to argue it, of course. Therefore the neccessity to install a law that differentiates between the nature of the crime,
to facilitate sentencng that takes into account the motives. Otherwise, judges cannot just pluck sentences and mete out punishment from thin air, without the legislation that forms the framework already in place...