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Crimes of passion are not a thing. They're institutionalised excuses for people acting unjustly from motives that may be morally abhorrent but are implicitly sanctioned by the social system they live under. In this way they are the crimes with the highest degree of premeditation.
You might think that acting in rage implies acting pre-reflectively, but anger, for all its motivating strength lacks any inherent direction. That person has already decided how to process anger and act in response to frustrating situations long before being angered at anything.
They have already coldly decided to act unjustly in situations of anger, even to take that anger seriously and to view those situations in that light, and they continue endorsing this for their entire calm lives before the moment when "passion" is supposed to mitigate their blame
At any point during their lives they can decide otherwise and there will be no moment of anger, and if there is is it will not motivate murder and assault. That's my view about people that commit transphobic and homophobic crimes and then cowardly hide behind their anger for pity
The emotion of anger is innocent. These are the most premeditated, the most coldly calculated crimes. Crimes premeditated in the abstract, decided, discussed and defended for the entirety of their life. People know that this is the case and that's what elicits all the apologia.
In fact, the only reason the passion in """crimes of passion""" is not viewed as aggravating is that patriarchal, homophobic and transphobic societies sanction and endorse these motives and by extension these crimes, anger for these reasons, this way of navigating these cases.
Misogynistic societies low key endorse misogynistic murder, transphobic societies endorse transphobic murder. So they recognise misogynistic and transphobic etc motives and deliberation as justified and hence those responses to anger elicited by that understanding as rational.
