While the circumstances surrounding this story are certainly not funny, it was inevitable that the anonymity of the Internet would embolden people to post comments that they wouldn't dare utter at a party or around people in general.
But what's even more fascinating to me is the people out there who that, by the shear force of their will or the charisma of their avatar, feel they can put a stop to all this inappropriate Internet activity.
For example:
If you believe this, please copy and paste and repost as many times as you can.
YAHOO,
PLEASE! CLOSE THE COMMENT SECTION(S) TO THIS AND ANY RELATED ARTICLES. THERE IS NOTHING TO BE GAINED BY THIS. SHOW SOME RESPECT FOR THE DEAD & INJURED, PLEASE!
Our prayers should be with those who died and were injured. We should not use this forum for spewing our political beliefs during this time of tragedy. I believe in freedom of speech, but as an honest, hard-working American, our comments should be about those affected by this tragedy and not about our own selfish interests. Yahoo has many other forums for that type of behavior.
First off, the cut and paste section reminds of those e-mails where they promise you that one cent will be donated to cancer research for every person you forward it to.
Second, pretty much all of my favorite quotes in the world begin with this: "I believe in freedom of speech, but..."
Listen buddy: you want to make the world a better place, volunteer at a soup kitchen and spare us the Internet altruism.
-10 for Internet altruism
-50 for 'my speech only, thanks'
And a special shout out for coming across as a bigger douche bag than the people insulting the dead and wounded. That takes talent.
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