[T'wit]

Trolls are believed to be morally dead. They can neither see nor hear nor feel any moral responsibility. They are utterly unable to experience either compassion or repentance.

Still, it is best not to flame them because we should always err on the side of caution. Once or twice a century, one of them might wake up and see the light.

[sfRummygirl]

Yeah, the flaming doesn't help. I understand it's hard, I ran into one that was a real coward, and it got me mad. But the thing is, even if they could become human at some point, it won't be by yelling at them.
There is something wrong, that they can't feel. Yelling won't shake them into humanity.
And truthfully, any stupid ill informed arguements that they come up with at this hour don't have much effect. Either people have a heart, or they are acting out. Not much gray area left at this point in the Terri case.

Speaking of which, I had the unfortunate chance of hearing Phil Hendrie's really strange rant about terri a couple of days ago. I like his comedy, and he is on after Savage here in SF.
Wow, what a mess that was. I think he shot himself in the foot, because it didn't compele me to tune in anymore. It was cringe radio....not very good for him.

[Coral Snake]

Not necessarily true. I was a troll against Linux in a somewhat shakey allience with three others (whose screen names I will not mention because of a previous AM warning about personal attacks) during my first month here. (I also had a tendency to use graphics like that Willian T. Sherman pic when I was anti Linux Trolling only then it was Karl Marx. If you want to know more about this part of my carreer as a FReeper, HiTech RedNeck would probably be the one on the Terri threads most knowledgable about it besides myself.)
However after starting to use Linux and getting the facts about Linux, the GPL and SCO from both FR Linux apologists and Open Source sites on the Internet, (Particularly NewsForge, still not to crazy about Slashdot) I broke that allience and became a reformed troll. SO TROLL REFORM CAN HAPPEN.