text: why so many morons on the internet? trolls and ignorants. because of the very nature of stability in the universe.  there is balance in everything.  one could, for instance, take the platonic argument of opposites - by virtue of the fact that there is a smart person on the internet, then, of course, for that person to be "smart", there has to be a "moron" for him/her to be measured against.  or, one could take the darwin approach to things, and simply argue that as our bodies evolve, so do our minds, and some people are genetically inclied to be morons, hopefully to be sorted out in a few million years.  for more of a religious approach, one might consider that god, being god, and wanting love and adoration, would want man to come to god through its own volition, through faith, and not through absolute knowledge.    the easy answer though is that computers are too damn cheap, and aol will sign anyone up that has fingers to type on a keyboard (no offense to those with congenital defects, born without fingers, mind you).