Yes, they are, and in the case of the nightcrawlers we've seen on this thread, those sins are amplified many times by the anonimity of the Internet.
But don't distress yourself my dear Tex, that rabble is only a tiny percentage of the posters here. When the Queen Mother passes away, which tonight sadly looks to be imminent, there'll be many retrospectives of her life on TV. Perhaps afterwards those of the Royal Family's critics with any self honesty will grudgingly acknowledge that by and large their lives have been of great service to Britain; particularly during storms like WWII.
The Younger Sister
By Andrew Motion
"The luxuries, of course, and privilege -
The money, houses, holidays, the lot:
All these were real, and all these drove a wedge
Between your life and ours. And yet the thought
Of how no privilege on earth can keep
A life from suffering in love and loss -
This means we turn to you and see how deep
The current runs between yourself and us.
And now death spells it out again, and more,
As it becomes your final human act:
A daughter gone before her mother goes;
A younger sister heading on before;
A woman in possession of the fact
That love and duty speak two languages."