The internet provides us with socializing without the normal checks and balances one typically finds in real life situations.
Every foible known to mankind is magnified on the net precisely because here one can interact without the normal governors that exist under the real world's interpersonal codes of behavior
We know perfectly well that people on line say things to other people they would never day to anyone's face.
But this place also gives us the previlege of knowing some people's hearts in ways we might never know then in real life.
WE see people who are more venal, more dishonest, more sadistic than we could possibly know if our interactions with them were in the real world.
These places give some of us liberty to speak our hearts and minds without the worry that we can be taken to task for expressing those POVs.
These places give us is a very distrubing, yet, I think, a very informative place to study the human condition.
En INTERNET veritas
I have learned so much about the human condition on the internets.
One in One Hundered people are sociopaths.
That is a real number.
After being on the internet so long I heard this number yesterday and my thoughts were "yes, that sounds about right" to my self.
I think the internets attract more than its share of them.
Its a place where they dont have to pretend to feel emotions for others.
Sociopaths who are functioning in society ( not eating people with fava beans) have to constantly lie about feeling some emotion for this or that issue.
It must be very tiring to lie all the time and on here they can just blurt out about how little they care about this group of people or that issue.
If they did it at work or with their family and friends they would not fair so well.
One in one hundered people you meet are sociopaths.
Gives a whole new meaning to the people who rail about bleeding heart liberals huh?