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Originally Posted by Sadre Spinegnawer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So, to get back to the science, we got three problems.

1. Anonymity
2. Disinhibition
3. Dissociation

Anonymity ---> disinhibition. But where and how does dissociation come in?

Solving for the Dissociation factor is crucial, because that is where a lot of the mutated but often pointless malice comes from.

In real life, we are kept in check (inhibited) by the fact people can see us, hear us, identify us.

Real life also -- let's assume -- favors stable identity. This is why aberrant personality or cognitive types are aberrant. The normal condition is a more or less "stable self." By "normal" I mean all the drama.

But not psychosis!

Dissociation is not a dramatic person. Dissociation is a psychosis process.

That the online world would create dissociated selves or push already fragile selves over an edge, in quantity, is so predictable it isn't even funny. It's ridiculously predictable.

But so is most of what happens, if you are a technological determinist like all the cool kids are.

Tru

Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Stick with aberrant personality types rather than psychosis. I personally don’t like diagnosing based on reading someone’s chat log or online postings, mostly because I’m not credentialed to do it and that’s not the correct way to….but I think it’s a safe assumption that the worst of the worst “trolls” in the world (the ones that go out of their way to torture innocent people online) most likely have some kind of personality disorder

Psychosis just isn’t as reasonable of a guess. Someone actually psychotic may not even be able to manage keeping a computer in working order. Because stimuli in a psychotic person’s brain is constantly being twisted and misinterpreted, often in a paranoid manner, simple mundane computer messages all of a sudden can be seen as “patterns” or “signals” usually resulting in the psychotic person taking their computer apart, screwing up the basic software that runs it, or just refusing to use it. A truly psychotic person would NOT make an effective online troll, IMO

If you can't be a good person online you are basically incapable of being truly moral.

Most of these ppl are just sinners destined for the lake if fire. It's silly to separate online personas from irl ones.

Let em burn.