Posted Jan 3, 2008 19:34 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190)
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This is the internet. We're not supposed to help each other; that was the ideal of a bunch of
beardy Birkenstock'd folk 15 years ago. We're supposed to make ourselves look good in front of
the whole world at everyone else's expense. And since 99.9% of us don't actually do anything
to justify our use of oxygen, we're pretty much left with tearing down those that do however
we can - whether by seizing on their tiniest slips and building them into egregious
transgressions, judging their actions by standards to which we don't even think to hold
ourselves, intimidating and belittling anyone who scares us, or when all of that doesn't work,
by outright libel.