Please send prayers/thoughts out to my aunt, uncle and cousins (Alaskan Bear victim)

[Moostache]

20. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the condolences and thoughts...

I was just reading some of the comments in the online reporting sections of many outlets reporting on this tragedy and I about lost my faith in humanity completely. So much ignorance, hate and flat out inhumanity it makes the mind reel and the soul ache. Jokes about his death, attributing it to 'liberalism', snide comments suggesting it was stupidity that led to this tragedy...enough bile and vitriol to make me want to do unspeakable things at times. I have never been in more need of an oasis of sanity than just now and I can find it here.

Here at DU, the community is everything I love and cherish about this nation, and what we collectively can be - supportive, empathetic, human. Out there in the waste land of the internet (and sadly around this country apparently), anonymous forums and reply buttons on Yahoo and Google and newspaper sites across the nation, it caters to the base and amoral in society...hideous, mean-spirited and abhorrent deviants. Anonymity gives people license to show you EXACTLY what they are, and it is not a pretty or uplifting sight.

Again, from my heart and soul, thank you DU for the kind words and thoughts and for helping me stay sane in an insane world and at an insane time. I can never thank you all enough.