Just because you appear nameless and faceless online does not mean that morals and ethics should go out the window. The true test of character comes when you do the right thing even when no one is looking - in a way "virtuality" is a test of your character. If you want to know how far you can go or how low you can go, let yourself go online and you'll see it. Despite our unknown identities, there are real people behind these IDs with real feelings - yeah, I don't personally care what most of them think anyway, however, I do conduct myself with certain moral standards even here on the forum.
My motto stands as if you wouldn't do it in real life, don't do it in virtual life. Following that helps me because I do realize that it is pretty easy to lose yourself online and to allow yourself to believe that what happens here doesn't matter. At the end of the day, it does matter. You may think that logging off/editing/self-banning yourself will make your actions go away, but this is still real life. What you do and how you behave all stays with you. Yeah, no one else may come and ask you why you said what you said, but do whatever it takes to keep your conscience clean.
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