George Costanza
A Friendly Liberal
Why do we have to muddy the waters with so much red tape?
In order that members of minorities can live in this country peacefully, without being set upon by bigoted louts.
Also, you mention murder and manslaughter as being sufficient subdivisions of the homicide law. In point of fact, both murder and manslaughter have degrees to them, with increasingly severe punishments as the degrees increase. This is precisely what hate crime legislation does.