No other emotion is criminalized. Just “hate”.

Why?

What I mean is, if it is justifiable to criminalize the emotion of “hatred” itself, where are the Pride Crimes, the Envy Crimes, the Lust Crimes and so on? Are they not equivalents to the crime of “hating”?

If I murder you because I rolled some dice and chose you at random, I’m guilty of murder.

If I murder you because I “hate” you, or what I believe you represent, I’m guilty of murder, but also guilty of “hating” you, at least as far as Law is concerned.

Another way to phrase that is to say that in the second instance, where I killed because of “hate”, what I’m really being found guilty of is the thoughtcrime of wrongthink. I can kill you because I’m jealous of your wealth and/or possessions, yet no one thinks to charge me with an additional Envy Crime. I can kill you because you embarrassed me at a party, yet no one thinks to charge me with having committed a Pride Crime. If I kill you because I didn’t want to do the work you asked me to do, no one thinks to charge me with an additional Sloth Crime.

Of all the so-called Deadly Sins, only “Hate” is legislated.

In no other arena do we legislate emotion, from what I can tell. First Degree Murder is a charge intended to punish intent, it is true, but intent is not an emotion. An intent may be driven by an emotion, but only in the case of that emotion being “hate” would we think to bring an additional charge.

And even then we only bring such a charge if the “hate” in question fulfills specific criteria. You can hate clowns all you like, for instance, and kill as many of them as you can get away with, but nowhere along the way, from arrest to trial to conviction to incarceration, will anyone ever think to charge you with the crime of Hating Clowns.

Why? Because clowns aren’t a Protected Class.

There is nothing resembling “equality” in any of this nonsense.

According to the Law, where I live, your life is worth objectively more if you are a member of a protected class. You life may be worth, say, 10 years in prison for the man who held you up and shot you down in the street. But hey, if you’re a member of one of the Protected Classes (which are themselves ever-changing), your life might be worth 12, 15, maybe even 20 years in prison for that same man. All that’s required is that someone, somewhere, demonstrate that he had committed the unforgiveable thoughtcrime of wrongthink.