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Sitting at my computer i find myself once again immersed in the time consuming yet mostly meaningless internet activities that constitutes a Holidays Monday evening. However one thing I’ve started to particularly enjoy is the widely popular Youtube, and especially the pattern of comments that emerge below their corresponding media. Argument, debate and opinion! 

After reading the apparent Triond Hot Content “An Example of Why Abortion Should be Illegal” I mused upon the same display of the aforementioned. But what is it which makes us all behave this way? I find it amusing how we develop into passionate crusaders of enlightenment hoping to convert the ignorant. Ofcourse this is only half of what i observe. This is simply one type of person, often educated and keen for knowledge, morally grounded and consciously opinionated, the magnitude and direction of which derives from their background and upbringing. This is the person who comments on topics and concepts with the power of honest rational argument. Why do we do it? Such as in the case of abortion, do we feel a heroic social responsibility to occupy other individual’s thoughts with our own usually underdeveloped ideology? Or a typically human egotism under the facade of intellectual debate?

In the case of abortion we find mostly the pursuit for ethical righteousness, with room for philosophical and religious difference. However when we remove ourselves from the philosophy of such intellectual arenas and place ourselves in the less formal debates of websites like Youtube we enter an entirely different realm. Like before we have the crusaders battling to enlighten the perceived ignorant opposition. Similarly there are the rude and often vulgar surfers who impose their Wille Zur Machian nature on others and their opinions. It is this which amuses me most. To observe the entirely redundent voiced opinion to a local group of viewers pitched paradoxically with the fervour of a politician. Is it sad to think there will be people on these virtual internet communities that will care what that person thought? No, because this medium allows the interchange of information which will, unconsciously atleast, address the listener. However, there is a new breed of person which I equally enjoy observing who would argue otherwise.

This person is the entertainer who enjoys the internet as a source of enjoyment in its incredible variety of forms. A person who we all will relate to, in some way, including myself. Amazingly this person will pitch an absurd and nonsensical argument just to stimulate a response. Many would cast me down with their heightened satiricism for my appreciation for this person who, as a nuisance, unneccessarily battles everyone just for the sake of it. However my removed position of narrative seeks only to invite others to muse at the predictably characteristic absurdity of human behaviour as it develops through the internet era.