I think Art made a rather interesting point when he wrote, referring to the person who started this thread:

In another thread you pretty much said, "this is only a forum" and not a place real enough to form actual community bonds between participants. Why, then, is it a place that's real enough for you to vent your venom and denigrate and slander real people who simply have different ways of seeing these sad events than you do?? Or are you just "having fun" in this thread too??

It's the question that has occurred to me from time to time. If this really is all a game - "having fun" - isn't that rather trivialising a pretty important topic. Are the unsustainable accusations thrown out, at Carol in particular, really just a kind of teasing, or is the hatred implied actually real?