Internet hostility

I learned a long time ago that arguing with some stupid meathead who wants to show off on the internet is like trying to dip your dick in honey mustard sauce and pass it off to people on the street as a chicken nugget: Stupid, futile, pointless, vulgar and incredibly ignorant.


Most of the points were already raised, but its nothing more than a power trip for most people. The pluses and minuses to total anonymity on the internet allows anybody to say what they really feel without holding back or gives them passage them to pose/tease/bully with the crowd while maintaining whatever internet rep they wish to develop for themselves among peers. It's no different from how a normal everyday suit-and-tie-businessman/woman with windex clean morals IRL can suddenly get online and become an uber-horny sexual pervert in minutes. People show no restraint, because theres no threat of being discovered that you're a racist (Youtube & Ebaums comments), a tranny pedophile deviant (Sarah/Disgust popping up in gfchat yesterday for example), an ex-murderer, hate-monger, closet-gay/lesbian (self hating or not), homophobe, religious zealot or gawd knows what else behind a random screenname of jumbled letters and numbers.

And when it all boils down to it, what are moderators and admins gonna do besides slap you on the wrist and/or ban you? It's as simple as finding another place on the net more tolerant and having a go with who you really are while you most likely deny it vehemently in public.

That's society for you. The popularity of the global internet just exposes a lot more of the filthy layers of it. =\

Jam it back in, in the dark.