In doing this blog I've really started paying attention to how other people write, I'm going so far as to read the comments on other pieces. I've noticed a trend that has left the hands of kids and must have infected adults.
I'm talking about rudeness. Some friends of mine play World of Warcraft (WOW) and they will talk occasionally about "griefers". These are people that want to cause problems because they think it's fun. I had assumed they were kids, now I wonder.
When reading news and politics articles their is a lot of people making rude comments. So I think they only comment to be rude. I assume they are adults because I can't imagine many kids reading some of the news things that I do (the Economist is a good example).
The internet does give one a degree of safety and invisibility and I think that has become a bad thing. If you won't say it around your mother, you wouldn't want someone to say it to you or your mother or you wouldn't say it to someone that might hurt you then maybe you shouldn't say it or think of a better way to phrase it.
I know it's difficult to put humor and sarcasm in writing but that means you must be extra precise when writing to get your point across.
I wonder how many rude comments would be made if the person had to say them to a person instead of hiding behind a computer. Yes, I said hiding. If people were always this rude then I don't think dueling would have died out. I rather think I would prefer the dueling. Anyone thinking that dueling was a European thing are mistaken, Texas and Louisiana have a fine history of dueling. They might have used a Bowie knife instead of a sword but still dueling.
Maybe this is just a phase that our culture is going through. Hopefully, we will grow out of it much like a child grows out of the terrible two's.
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