When idiots attack

I'll never understand why people attack others over the Internet. What's the point? If you don't like someone and/or their views on things, don't read what they have to say. If you're going to, don't be an ass about it. You can be perfectly civil and voice your displeasure about what they have to say. You don't have to send them death threats or any number of other nasty things.

I'm not having any problems like this but I keep seeing it happening to people I read online. It's rather unfortunate that some of them have had to shut down their website or blog.

I'd really rather see them say, screw you I'm going to continue doing what I've been doing whether you like it or not. Just simply remove any way for anyone to contact you. Then you won't have to deal with the idiots. Maybe it's harder than that, I don't know but at least it's a start.

A few bad apples always ruin it for everyone else.