I don't know how useful it is to quibble over labels and where the line lays between hate crimes and terrorism. If someone is a thug, then I don't much care what their ideology is, I want them stood up to.

My wife is still a reporter at heart and when a relative posted something about a guy in her part of the country that tortures cats to death for sport and posts about it online, she did not just tsk-tsk about it but researched the hell out of the guy, looked at all his social media accounts and those of his friends, etc., and painted a picture of a terribly broken young man riddled with guilt over disappointing his father.

I still don't care, I just want him not torturing cats to death.

Beyond a certain point your sad story just doesn't matter to me. Being hurt or broken or neglected is not a license to act out.