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I wonder if this is a mainly US problem or an international one? While I could imagine some of the people I know would do this 'for harmless fun', it's only 1-2
by laci27 9y ago
I wonder if this is a mainly US problem or an international one?
While I could imagine some of the people I know would do this 'for harmless fun', it's only 1-2 idiots (out of all the people I talked to in my life), but those are jerks in real life too...
- laumars 9y agoThe article did state comments came from all parts of the globe (presumably they're doing some kind of GeoIP look up)? I'd love to say it's just 1 or 2 idiots but stories like these are so common that Ive come to the conclusion that there is a very real gender bias at play. Which makes me both sad from the perspective of equality and disappointed as a representative of the male species. :(
- laci27 9y agoAll parts of the globe, but I can't imagine comments like this coming from The Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland... you know 'from countries such as Norway' (presidential quote here)
- carlmr 9y agoComing from Germany (the one country in that area you didn't mention), we have a fair share of idiots here. We just don't expose them to the world in the manner America does. Some of it, of course, is due to the language barrier.
- raquo 9y agoOne of my more depressing findings in life is that no matter how you slice and dice the population, you'll find an abundance of assholes in every slice.
- BBlarat 9y agoPlenty of that kind of people in Sweden.
- cm2187 9y agoWell people who think this is fun are jerks (or kids) to start with, real life or not. But the real world has something the internet lacks: social control. The people you evolve with know you, judge you, and you must maintain a certain attitude and appear to adhere to social norms under the threat of contempt, exclusion, or even legal implications. That keeps society together. I think the internet shows the raw human nature without the social control. And it’s not pretty.