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Have you ever lived in fear? It's fucking horrible. It affects everything you do, everything you think. Even if you know, you KNOW it's irrational, the fear doe

Have you ever lived in fear? It's fucking horrible. It affects everything you do, everything you think. Even if you know, you KNOW it's irrational, the fear doesn't go away. Spending every day hiding inside, flinching at every knock on the door, your mind being eaten away by a constant, ever-present fear. Feelings hurt? This isn't about calling someone a dickhead. This is about the kind of thing that destroys people, and we should sit back and let people do this for their own entertainment?

aunty_helen 12y ago
So an appropriate response would be 2 years of imprisonment? I'm not saying the nasty end of the troll spectrum isn't a problem and we should all just take some concrete pills. When you face the wrath of the internet it most definitely will put you in a shitty frame of mind. In the extreme cases I would argue that it's not the individual 'I hate you jump off a bridge you POS' that will make someone crack but the torrent of thousands of people at all different levels of hatred.
- DanBC 12y ago
  > So an appropriate response would be 2 years of imprisonment? I think prison should be reserved for people who are repeatedly violent, so my answer is no. But still, making many credible threats of extreme violence - often causing the victim to leave their homes and disrupting their work - should carry some penalty.