Terror: a Head-Scratcher

What’s the difference between crime and terrorism? What’s the difference between crime and a hate crime? The effect is clearly different- terrorism and hate crimes are used to influence people beyond the scope of the crime itself. But can you define terrorism and hate crimes in a way that is useful in making fair laws? Is there any way to do this without criminalizing the state of mind the person was in when the crime was comitted? There are degrees of murder based on intent, could there be degrees of crime that included hate crimes? How can it be proved that a person intended to commit a hate crime if they deny it?

Anyway, I’m thinking about big issues today or something.

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