Blog Etiquette(warning: totally humorless topic)

Well today, for the third time, I saw someone completely bash someone on their blog because
they did not agree with an OPINION they had. I can't tell you how much this frosts me. Then again....maybe I can. I don't know how many people read my blog. I have actually not given the site address to more than a few people I know. To me, this is my place to vent. Though I try not to offend, the truth is that
if I do, anyone has the option NOT to read my spoutings. It is cathartic to me to get my beefs down and then send them into oblivion. I know that I sound like a major whiner at times(especially in 2008, it was a tough year), but before people bash someone on their own blog,
I wish they would stop to think that this is THEIR forum. This is where they get the microphone and get to heave things off their chest. It's a form of therapy. If you'd like to throw an "AMEN" at them or a supportive comment, TERRIFIC and if these meanies and nay-sayers would like to set up their own
blog and spew their baggage into the WWW, have at it but to sucker punch someone on their own blog is inexcusable. In the one case, a young woman who is fighting for her every breath
after a MUD transplant for Hodgkins that ruined her lungs was blasted by a woman when this gal wrote about her
disappointment that her new husband bailed as soon as she took ill. Horrible. In another case,
a man totally took the wind out of another guy's sails by insulting him and then making an uneducated and negative prediction about his medical status. Today's was the last straw. I stumbled onto a blog some time ago of a family in New England whose son is fighting neuroblastoma. Their beautiful son is just 5 and has endured over 50 rounds of chemo since his dx at 7 months old. He has been deemed incurable and this man is frustrated by a lot of the same things the MM community faces too. Tryng to get access to experimental treatments and the whole clinical trial
and FDA approval processes that keep lifesaving drugs from those who need them and sometimes have no other options is a heart wrenching thing when your kid's life hangs in the balance. Someone blasted this man on his own blog about an opinion he stated concerning government monies spent on another illness. He did not begrudge funding for this illness, he just wished that a small amount of the money spent on one of the the less important aspects(nothing to do with treatment or research) could go to saving innocent little kids like his. I should elaborate that the majority of the people who have this illness, got it by taking the risk to expose themselves to it AND this blogger made it abundantly clear that he was not passing judgement on those who got it through no fault of their own. I'm not surprised that the coward that wrote this awful comment on their blog keeps an anonymous profile. I wanted to comment right there on that blog but felt I would be bringing too much of my own opinions so I'm venting here once again. I must say here and now that I feel the ONLY thing that gives any person the right to have their OWN opinion is having R-E-S-P-E-C-T for the opinions of others. Here's the beauty of living in a free country. YOU DON'T HAVE TO AGREE with anyone. BUT YOU SHOULD have the grace to respect their rights to their own opinions and mindsets. I cannot believe the heartlessness of some of these comments I read. Truly venomous. While the internet can be an
amazing resource, it does also give a venue to a lot of mean and bad people out there. There is never a justification for kicking someone when they're already down. Luckily, I have some lovely people reading my blog. But if any meany comes along on here and sucker punches me, I just may have to
hunt their raggedy ass down. They don't call me "nasty niecer" for nothing! Sorry for the seriousness here folks. Unfortunately, it ain't all fun and games in "cancerland."