Trolls exist for the sole purpose of creating chaos. That's what they feed on. Disorder fuels them, the thrive on the feeling of stirring emotions and pay no attention to the carnage. They love the attention their thoughtless often hurtful comments bring, and they eat up the responses they get from people who are quick to pounce before stepping back and understanding the situation and the obvious troll behind it all. We're fueled by our emotions for the most part, and our reflexes and defense mechanisms to protect those emotions and opinions are easily controlled by trolls. That's the reality that we live in.
And we can only go so far to block trolls from existence on the internet without taking away personal freedoms when it comes to posting how we feel. And there are some relatively harmless cases of trolling that attack opinions or world views, but the issue transforms into something much uglier very easily. The Zelda Williams case shows us as much, as do online bullies targeting an individual's appearance, adding into the toxic culture of body shaming and negative self views that poisons our society and leads to disorders and death. How many more people need to get hurt, PHYSICALLY and MENTALLY scarred before they realize their effects?
But that's the problem, they DON'T. They won't. The difference between internet trolls and the people affected by them is the sociopathic behavior and mindset we see in trolls. They feel no emotion, realize no emotion. It's a game. The internet is a screen, the avatars they respond to are fake, and nothing is real because they don't see and experience the effects of their words in real time. That's the issue.
I want to start off by saying I love the way you write. I totally agree with you that trolls see everything as a game. Especially with our society today, they take advantage of the fact that they are behind a screen. The fact that I the trolls them selfs are going through some kind of pain as well and they are taking it out on others.
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