you still havent answered my question with any clarity? try actually explaining your thought process, to how vulnerability and severity of punishment dont equate to intent and serverity of punishment
as you already agreed a 4 year old is more vulnerable , which goes right along with why crimes against children has harsher penalties? and if i am missing a concept jsut fill it in no need for fucks in words
and ya a child is more vulnerable to people who willingly commit crimes against children, and those people should be locked up somewhere dark and quite, same thing goes for victims of hate crimes they are more vulnerable to be victimized by bigots then non bigots for their, characterizations(race,creed,sex, ideology, age)