Every now and then I hear stuff over the internet (okay I read it), where someone is being an asshat to someone. It is actually a fairly common thing these days but the heat seems to move from place to place, video games, book reviews, paparazzi, news sites, it’s everywhere that people interact. It’s ubiquitous. And it seems to be getting slowly worse. Scalzi has a blog about it, Stacia Kane, Chuck Wendig and many others are pointing it out.
Why is that?
It bothers me that somewhere along the way our society has stopped teaching our children what it means to have manners and even though you can remain anonymous, you still should show some regard for other human beings. You know, do the right thing. Sadly, I ‘m not sure a lot of people even realize that what they are doing is wrong. They spew frothy hatefulness like it is their right and it doesn’t matter that the person that is the target has feelings and a family and a life that they might be impacting. Do they really want to ruin someone’s life over something that in the big scheme is trivial?
