well, yes. It is worse because it is usually targeted not just one individual but a category of people. Even though the person who commits hate crime (e.g beati

well, yes. It is worse because it is usually targeted not just one individual but a category of people. Even though the person who commits hate crime (e.g beating a chinese to death because one hates chinese) to only one person, the damage goes beyond one person. All the chinese people would feel the hatred and would be angry by that. The consequences could result in very very nasty back and forth revenge,war,mass murders. We had learned these painful lessons from history.