Hating people is stupid. It's evil. It destroys you. It prevents you from being happy. It makes your path to Hell smooth and straight.
You have the right to do it, though, and you're not violating anyone's rights by doing so. The question of whether you were motivated by hate when you committed a crime is 100% irrelevant to your guilt or innocence. And it's nobody's business but God's.
I don't have much of a problem with private companies banning people, etc., from their products, services, etc., for the things the people say. The company is the exclusive property of the owner(s), who have no obligation to provide a forum for people to speak. I might think that the company is foolish for banning someone, etc., but it's their property, and no right to freedom of speech exists in that context unless the owner grants it. Everybody has the God-given right to do stupid and/or bad things. Unless it violates someone's rights to his or her life, liberty, or property, no earthly court has the legitimate authority to impose penalties, or get involved in any other way, for that matter.
What I do have a problem with--what I am staunchly and eternally opposed to--is the government punishing people based on the mythical "hate speech" standard. An individual should not be prosecuted for emotions, but only for actual behavior that violates the rights of others to their life, liberty, and property. In some cases, a person's intentions can be taken into consideration (e.g., when it's clear that someone caused a death accidentally), but those cases are extremely limited. Even in those cases, it requires quite a bit of pretending to read people's minds.
Having an emotion, even a deeply negative emotion, violates nobody's rights. Even if the emotion motivates the individual to commit a crime, the only thing that can legitimately and justly be subject to prosecution is the crime that was actually committed. Does what the person said constitute fraud? That's a violation of an actual right, so it can be prosecuted. Was the person full of hate when she said it? Doesn't matter. Was the person full of love when she said it? Doesn't matter. The actual act is all that matters. A person saying hateful things is not violating any rights, just being a bad person.
The same thing goes for so-called "hate crimes." If I rob a bank, or murder someone, or run a scam to con people out of a bunch of money, or vandalize someone's house, or beat somebody up, I have violated actual rights. It doesn't matter why I did it. It only matters that I did it.
To begin with, how many crimes are committed against people out of love for that person? None, for all intents and purposes. Sure, there are crazy people who say that it's for love, but they're crazy, so they don't count. Someone's hatred for me does not violate my rights in any way or to any degree whatsoever. Someone stabbing me in the kidney does, whether the person hates me or not.
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