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You're assuming people have morals to appeal to - most don't. When everyone is connected to everyone else the asshole always prevail. The solution is to sever

• aduitsis 5y ago
  One would dare say that an overwhelming majority of people does have morals. But a very small minority that doesn't have morals, is causing the illusion that it's most people that don't have them.
  • wyre 5y ago
    As individuals, maybe, but as a society I have a hard time seeing proof when there is normalized wage slavery, the animal industrial complex, and any industry with money or power is deeply corrupted. Right now we have a large percentage of people that refuse to get a vaccine to protect their neighbors. Everyone might have morals, but the bar is low.
    • seneca 5y ago
      Other people not sharing your values is not the same as them not having morals at all.
• Nagyman 5y ago
  [citation needed] I don't know many such morally-absent folks. Perhaps the perverse incentives in our system mean a bunch of CEOs are quite sociopathic, but on the whole, people seem rather good intentioned to me. The internet certainly serves as a platform for many that would be otherwise shunned IRL, but I don't think they're the general majority...just the majority that decide to voice their opinions. The rest aren't even paying attention - only a small fraction of people have a Twitter account, for example. Even reddit, which can be anonymous, is filled with good discourse, assuming you avoid certain subreddits, and sort by top. Moderation goes a long way to mimicking our more natural IRL tendencies to turn down the assholes. Twitter and Instagram generally lack those tools, so the assholes can be louder and _seem_ more prominent than they are.