[throw10920]

This is just factually true, and it's why pleading, pearl-clutching, arguments from emotion, etc. should all be immediately discarded - because you have no idea whether the person on the other side of the account is a spammer, paid propagandist, mentally ill, lying for the lols, or just a bot.

Online, the only thing that matters is the substance of the argument.

Save the emotions for those you know in the real world, who you know are real.