You are spending too much time and effort attempting to characterize why people decide to troll. Sometimes people just enjoy poking fun at the self righteous know it alls that like to post their thoughts on comment threads.
Sometimes you pull on your cats tail right before you feed it because it is fun to watch their mental dissonance. Sometimes I twerk a prigs nose because it is also fun to do. The “Well, I Never!” never gets old. If that makes me an ahole, so be it.
Without any rhyme or reason for it.
You are spending too much time and effort attempting to characterize why people decide to troll. Sometimes people just enjoy poking fun at the self righteous know it alls that like to post their thoughts on comment threads.
I find exploring the causes of human behavior very fascinating, but more than that light needs to be shed on the causes of destructive tendencies. Abuse, neglect, absent fathers are having a more catastrophic effect on American society than we even realize. Internet trolling is just one symptom of a greater disease.
Unless you thought crazy animal rights activists, PETA members, Antifa thugs, drug addicts, etc. just sprang up out of nowhere...