10-08-2007, 12:48 PM
It is a matter of how people feel when they are being discriminated against, it is not a good feeling.
You can quickly prove someone that calls you an idiot wrong, you can in fact prove that he is the idiot. You can clear up misunderstandings about almost any other flame, but if someone hates your for what you are, you can't really do much more than to beat them up or ignore it.
Beating someone up often becomes a problem over the Internet, ignoring it can become a problem if it keeps getting repeated. The difference is that people feel a lot more helpless in situations like this, especially since it is a big problem in real life too.
You can quickly prove someone that calls you an idiot wrong, you can in fact prove that he is the idiot. You can clear up misunderstandings about almost any other flame, but if someone hates your for what you are, you can't really do much more than to beat them up or ignore it.
Beating someone up often becomes a problem over the Internet, ignoring it can become a problem if it keeps getting repeated. The difference is that people feel a lot more helpless in situations like this, especially since it is a big problem in real life too.