You said that a hate crime law like that makes your life worth less than someone else's, but it doesn't. If you were killed by a homosexual man because you were heterosexual and he hated your sexual orientation, he could be charged with a hate crime. Voila, your life is worth exactly the same as everyone else's, in the sense that you were talking about.

It does not discriminate against straight people, because straight people are "protected" in the same way gay people are, in that if they are the victim of violence based on the hate of sexual orientation, the perpetrator can be charged with a hate crime.

Just because laws like this are created because most of the violence flows one way does not mean they discriminate against the side that initiates most of that violence. Heterosexuality is a sexual orientation, and is thus "protected" in the same way as homosexuality. That goes for all the things that qualify as hate crimes. If a black man attacks a white man because he hates white people, that is a hate crime in the same way as if a white man attacks a black man because he hates black people. It is all the same under a law like this. The law is not discriminating against you, which is what your original post was about. The law is not discriminating against anyone.

It is saying that if a person attacks someone, anyone, just because they hate a generic classification of people that the victim belongs to, that is a hate crime. It is saying that attacking someone because you hate their race, religion, sexual orientation, etc, is different than attacking someone, for example, because you want their money.

Do you not think it's different? Do you not think that distinction is important? Do you not think we should care why people hurt each other?