[freedomben]

It's truly amazing to me (in a bad way) how humans are on the internet. They don't seem to realize that other people are real people. There's something about a reply that snaps them out of it. I've seen it happen many times myself as well.

[munificent]

> They don't seem to realize that other people are real people.

It is hypothesized that there is a rough upper limit to the number of people our brains can naturally conceive of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

Of course, with effort, we can be mindful that in fact we are surrounded by millions of strangers, but it's not an instinctual emotional reaction. When in environment like sitting at home staring at a screen, it's easy to forget to do that cognitive work.

[lostlogin]

Something similar sometimes happens in heavy road traffic too I think.

[inigojonesguy]

By writing this I'll contradict what I'm going to say, but, generally, not applying to this thread, I observed that many times people spend their precious time to write a reply instead of using it to better understand TFA.