i want to commit hate crimes daily. what did you picture when you read that? me driving around with my buddies in a van, beating up gay dudes and black fellas, punching out red headed dudes with reckless abandon? shame on you. it's pretty unoriginal to hate groups that your upbringing conditioned you to hate (not that i was conditioned to hate anyone. i'm self-taught). "i hate you because i was taught to by the people who raised me" what fun is hating someone if you don't get the chance to get to know them and go, "oh, this person should be doused in acid"? and if you did commit a crime against them, such as throwing acid on them, why wouldn't their hateability gain you some leniency with the judge? why can't you use the fact that someone is appropriately hated as a defense? if you stand behind someone at a baseball game, and they refuse to put down their sign - thus causing you to miss crucial plays - and then you see the sign, and it says 'I MAKE $500K a YEAR AND I'M STILL SITTING IN GENERAL ADMISSION' ...that person should be punched mostly in the face. and if you are charged with battery, why can't hate come to your defense? just because he's the same ethnicity as you? "it's not battery, your honor. i hate this man, and i think everyone can agree with me that hate is the appropriate reaction to this" - then boom. you pull out the sign as exhibit A. and maybe community service and anger management courses turn into a standing ovation and the key to the city.