sonjay
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Good post. Was thinking... We all wonder if society has always been this way, or have (things like this) gotten worse?
Once again, referring back to reading that horrific thread, the offender's fellow robots, went to great lengths to acknowledge and agree that 'the offender' was UGLY. Yes, Ugly. He called himself ugly and showed his picture rather than an anonymous gravatar. In response, his online 'friends' confirmed he was indeed, quite ugly.
So - my point is this -----
Ten years ago, there was no internet for people to go on and commiserate with those like themselves. For this madman, his online 'friends' encouraged him to move forward! Ughhhh. So yes, I think it is worse than it used to be in our society. But then this gets all really deep, right? - becuse social media, itself, has become a weapon to facilitate madness. Oooy.
I'm about as hard-line in supporting the First Amendment as the Second. But I have to recognize that sites like 4chan create a unique community for the disturbed. In everyday life, people like this Oregon are misfits, and they know that their thoughts and desires are abnormal. But on sites like 4chan, they become part of a community of like-minded people who make all those twisted dark violent tendencies seem "normal."
I really think it fosters the idea in people like that that what they want to do is "okay" somehow.
It's very disturbing. I'm not sure what, if anything, can be done about it.