Anonymity

On the internet, everything is so easy to escape from. A person can launch verbal assaults and disappear without every having to confront his victim ever again. It's the equivalent of a hit and run, but the different is the police will come and track you down. There's no sovereign internet authority to do so on the internet, and maybe that will change with greater forum moderation on sites such as this. I suspect there are deeper sociological reasons that create this kind of mentality, but suffice it to say that consumer technology has enabled much of this behavior. We have quickly lost touch with sincerity of communication, and the giant veil provided by the internet is the perfect enabling agent for profuse sarcasm when it comes to split opinions.