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I've drawn parallels before about how motorists interact with other road users, and how e.g. twitter users interact with each other.
Simply put, I think there's a vague degree of (perceived) anonymity which causes people to act in very antisocial ways. Anger, insults, not backing down from an incorrect position, threats of violence, etc. Basically, if a lot of people interacted with random people on the street as they do whilst using a motor vehicle or social media, then I think there'd be a lot more violence in the world.