This is another common fallacious argument that I want to flag. Assholes will asshole somehow whether they live cheek-by-jowl with outgroup or on other side of planet. Moral-hazard-of-medium is a cheap excuse for the unimaginative drive to define yourself by dehumanizing others. https://twitter.com/max_arbitrage/status/982403306105516032 …
I don’t doubt that. People act out conflict differently offline. For example cops get more trigger happy, more mass shooters, etc. There’s also compensatory self-segregation Offline tends to gather critical mass and explode in bigger ways (riots) than endemic continuous conflict