I'm glad you at least appreciate the reasoning behind my slippery slope concerns. I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, I just think it's kind of a scary thing to give any court license to intuit a defendant's inner motives and attitudes. and that would be almost necessary, it seems, in any attempt to determine whether a particular crime was a hate crime. I agree with doc that the severity of the offense should be the primary determinant in sentencing at all times.
