[Margaret Pilkington]

Jen, you are right about people making snide comments.
It just seems to me to be a 'point scoring exercise'.........a bit like olden days, when people would take a trip to the lunatic asylum at Bethlem(bedlam)(that is what it was called then.....it would be mental instition now...or perhaps not) to make fun of the inmates.
Maybe it somehow makes these people feel better, superior.

And Garinda is right too, there will always be cruel people who without any thought for the feelings or sensitivities of others will post harsh unwarranted comments and derogatory remarks....just because they can.
Now whether these people would do that in real life if you were face to face with them.....well, some would, but some wouldn't have the guts.