If you’d never say it across a lunch table, don’t say it in a comment box. Keyboards aren’t a costume.

Distance makes cruelty easier without making it smaller. A screen removes the face, the pause, and every signal that would normally stop you mid sentence, so things get typed that would never survive being said two feet away. The absence of those brakes is not permission. It is only the absence of brakes.

Use the lunch table as your test before you post: same words, same person, same room. If the answer is no, close the box. Nothing is lost by declining to say a thing, and the version of you that people meet online is still you.