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This is argument is being sincerely presented on, you guessed it, one of the forums within the official Major League Baseball site. Someone named “Preacher54″ (aren’t they all, though?), posting on the “State of the Redsox.com Nation” board, writes:

our nation is sick, this guy kills some dogs and may do time or lose his job. yet the abortion industry thrives is promoted by our politicians and if people cry out and say its wrong there silenced or ignored. i dont get it. yes what he did was wrong we all realize that, but does his punishment fit the crime? or does color play into this? maby mike could do a couple abortions and placate the political correct crowd and all would be made well. something is wrong.

After a few token rebuttals, Preacher comes back with this:

the nfl is using him to make a statement here because they have no choice. plus they never liked him to begin with, the whole hip hop persona and all, black, flips off fans, so throw him under the bus, who cares, we will come out of this looking so righteous and careing. never mind all the rest of our problems league wide such as drug use, spoucel abuse, crime, gambleing, and all the rest that comes along with the players that come from poverty

Somehow, I don’t think this fellow has reached an analytical station at which he might consider how the role of unplanned children plays into a non-negligible fraction of “drug use, spoucel abuse, crime, gambleing, and all the rest.”
Very rarely, this kind of over-the-top stupidity turns out to be a poor attempt at humor, with the topic starter eventualy ‘fessing up amind a flurry of angry reactions. In this case, the thread has gone on far too long for this to be the case, and naturally Preacher54 has found some defenders, most notably “BugSelug,” who writes off al reasoned opposition to Preacher54′s “points” as antireligious speech suppression. If there’s anything worse than someone with an IQ of 60 rattling off prose in the name of Jesus, it’s a whiner the LORD, and together they are like coarsely ground glass being tossed beneath a lawnmower.
While a fair number of ignoramuses and loonies litter the comment fields of ScienceBlogs.com, everyone here does become accustomed a a certain level of discourse; whackjobs and other delusionals typically show evidence of having no problem creating readable sentences and coherent thoughts, suggesting that theire minds are partitioned rather than globaly feeble. One gets the sense that for all our brawling, it would be easy to get along with them in meatspace.
But the output of nutters like Preacher54, who can be found on every kind of online forum in existence, is genuinely repulsive. I’ve known and worked with a very few people who have no problem telling others, with a straight face and without turning away from their typing, “You’re going to hell!” when they hear a “damn” or a “for Christ’s sake” or a “The Virgin Mary was a goddamned pimply teabagging whore!” innocently slip from someone’s lips. (Of course, Preacher54 might not be a workplace nuisance, as he admits to one of his interlocutors, “i meant you no personnel harm.”)
It’s easy enough to laugh most of these superficial, at-a-distance social transactions off, but when you consider the fact that the same people go home everyday and actually reach conlcusions through a process akin to thinking, it suggests that leaving the house is a dangerous proposition. Almost as dangerous as rooting for a Boston baseball club with a five-run lead in the last 20% of the regular season.