chunkyfrog wrote:Unfortunately, meanness usually comes from pain.
Some of the nastiest people can be very kind, if you but try to understand that.
Remember, we are all in this leaky, noisy boat together.
While true, IMO it also comes from lack of empathy, lack of sleep (which we know causes mood swings), low self-esteem, and lack of education. For some strange reason it seems some with a low self-esteem get some gratification from insulting others. Do they think it makes them look smart? idk but they get some gratification from it.
But then there are those here who have the ability to help control that behavior yet instead they support and justify it by defending those who display bad behavior. A very strange world we live.
Combine that with the way people change when you can't see their face and you've got the www. Or Wild, Wild, Web. I believe the people who display this behavior would not behave that way if you could see their face as in when interacting in person.
For those who are interested in more entertainment - put in the search words "Inner Circle" (include the quotes), I like to use the Advanced Search feature. I bumped it before but someone deleted my post which drops it back down. Go to the last post which was by jnk - my post was after that.
If you select "Post Reply" then scroll down you can see ALL replies even those which were "Spam Deleted". by whoever I find it strange that someone would Spam Delete a nice quote like that but that shows the unfortunate attitude on this wonderful forum.