Originally Posted by adidasss

I don't think it's just misreading people's tones, I think it's also the fact that not being face to face with someone, for some reason we are less inclined to think of them as real people, persons with emotions and feelings that can get hurt. That's why normally, in real life, we walk away (also because this type of shouty match usually ends up in a fist fight, whereas there's no threat of that online, you can be as big of a dick as you want with no repercussions, and usually people take advantage of that).

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.