What is it about anonymity that so inclines people to speak like complete morons? The perverted chatbox spammer is the pure, quintessential example of this particular brand of stupidity. But perhaps the question is flawed- working on the assumption that people are willing to act like idiots only on the condition of anonymity, whereas I venture to postulate that perhaps people are idiots by default; and anonymity is simply the vehicle by which this idiocy is expressed. Or to put it succintly, people are idiots writ passive; and anonymous spammers are idiots writ aggressive.
Pardon me. I do not mean to generalize. It would seem a gross a affront to justice indeed, to brand everyone 'idiots'. But the fact is, idiocy does seem to be the default state of being, as is evinced by the profligacy amongst the general populace.
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