The trashing of the Edward’s campaign HQ on Second Life is one of the problems you get with an open site. True, it’s nice to have a place where you can do whatever you like, but we have to remember that just as in the real world, people have their right to keep morons from vandalizing their property. Why don’t we ever see the supposed evil left doing this type of hateful evil activity?

Shortly before midnight (CST) on Monday, February 26, a group of republican Second Life users, some sporting “Bush ’08” tags, vandalized the John Edwards Second Life HQ.  They plastered the area with Marxist/Lenninist posters and slogans, a feces spewing obsenity, and a photoshopped picture of John in blackface, all the while harrassing visitors with right-wing nonsense and obsenity-laden abuse of Democrats in general and John in particular.

This kind of childish behavior isn’t only linked to politics. For example, there was the infamous World of Warcraft funeral massacre, where a group of people trying to pay respects to a dead friend had their characters killed off by assholes who took advantage of the group’s temprorary vulnerability as they held a virtual funeral. Why do supposedly intelligent people do such stupid shit?