Want to be the most antisocial reprobate, spreading misery to people worldwide? Go right ahead, they're just taking the internet too seriously. Sure you insulted just about every family member of said person, sure you just viciously attacked someone with the intent of seriously hurting and upsetting them. It's their fault for taking the internet too seriously, you don't need a conscience. Afterall, we're using a written global communications medium, and every since the rules were written back in nineteen-dippety-doo, written global communcations shalt not be seriouscat.

I wonder why this didn't start on subways? Go right up to someone and start telling them they're a low life with no aspirations and they'll never amount to shit cos they're just a fucking noobcunt. Yeah fuck you fat bastard, i get laid by over a million chicks a year whilst you're sat in your mum's basement room wanking to old gillian anderson photographs because you're too poor to afford anything newer.

Oh what, you're upset fatty? STOP TAKING THE SUBWAY SO SERIOUSLY LOL

Why is it this particular medium that gets moral ambiguity? We're writing things and communicating to other people. In real life, we're speaking and communicating to other people. Some people can't speak so they use hand gestures. What does the rulebook say about hand gestures? Can they wave at you to stop taking hand gestures so seriously?

Stephen Hawking has to use his breath to control a robot which writes something which is then translated into speech by another robot to get his message across. How about there, does that give him the moral high ground so that he can attempt to hurt people? Hell he's even more removed than we are using our computers, surely that lets him be even more of an ass than you can be on the internetz! Is it OK if he robotically rapes someone? LOL STOP TAKING STEPHEN HAWKING-BOT SO SRSLY!!111

Or maybe the philosophy is "well you can ignore it, it's only words" - in which case i'll happily come along to whichever school your child is at and deride them into the ground. I'll spread a whole bunch of rumours and then stand there yelling swear words and insults directly into her face from inches away, screaming with all my might. If that kid cries and comes home saying some big guy just did all that, tell her that it's just words and she can ignore it. I'm sure when she grows up a cowering mess you'll feel proud that you championed some rediculous bullshit phrase which boils down to "sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me." Great job, that phrase really worked on those poor fuckers that got bullied at school and grew up into nervous and depressed wrecks.

Unfortunately, i can't placate my moral clock by saying "stop taking <x> so seriously." I hope others can't either. This is the stupidest phrase to emerge victorious from the internetz. Heralded by offensive individuals who want a second mask to hide behind, make themselves feel even better about aggressively accosting other people.

If you want to insult someone, get some balls. Grow a pair of testicles between your legs and take responsibility for what you say. It's not their fault for being offended, it's your fault for offending them, so either feel proud that you were able to elicit a response, or feel bad for upsetting someone. Don't try and shift the blame on to them because really, at heart, no-one is falling for it. Not even you.

Things are as consequential or serious as you make them. You're a bully who doesn't dare to risk getting their arses kicked by their target. Worse still, you're all of that AND you're unwilling to take the credit.

And if you don't like it, stop taking dannym3141 so seriously. I bet i can troll better than you can.

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Coming to you from the rage inside dannym3141 when he sees "stop taking the internet so seriously" comments upvoted 12 times.</x>