rodheh, I'm afraid you're trying to hold back an inevitable wave here, man. See, the natural state of mankind is total and absolute douchebag-ness. Giving people a way to act out their worst, most aggressive, impulses, and then having no fucking way to hold them accountable...well, the internet is a dream come true for those kinds of people. I find it's best to ignore it and move on. You won't change these types. All you're likely to do is give yourself heartburn.

Live good and good things come of it.

Act like an unmitigated shitheel and most likely someone is going to call you on it in a very physical and damaging way one day. A bigger monkey, with a bigger stick, is sure to come along and teach you some much needed manners.

But, you know, the truth is, we've done this to ourselves, so we really have no one else to blame that such silly things as social niceties aren't observed online. We've got a whole generation of asshole kids coming to adulthood now, who never got the home schoolin' they needed.

I've found that most people these days have broken empathy buttons. They don't even know how to think about how someone else might feel. They have this sense of absolute, justified entitlement. Their feelings, their emotions, are the only ones that count. It's a denhumanized society we live in. Why bother giving a crap about someone else? They're not real people. Just names on a message board. They don't have problems, people who love them, emotional issues that they can't deal with. No way can they be like you.

It's always interesting to see who gets all offended when someone posts something like this, when they get called on acting like a prick. Boy, do they know how to scream about their right to act like a douchebag. But they do NOT believe in your right to expect respect from a fellow human being.

Just fucking amazes me. Truly.

This is America, buddy, and i'm aloud to shoot peop-Wait, what's this thread about again?

Is this the "Don't be an asshole, don't take the internet so seriously" one?

I keep conversations civil. Even when the dragons roar and the flowers have fled their pots due to the wars of the skeletal age, I've been able to keep a conversation civilized until the panty liners raided the snouts of elderpuss. I know now, god dammit, I know now when to just walk away from teh sands of Kay.

Besides. Yer wrong. According to prince, the internet is over. Nothing of what you said up there is even valid. All hell has broken loose and it's coming out of my pants.

We must understand that right is point of view.

i'm sorry but you're just wrong about the internet in general.
fuck you, buddy