Why I Chose To Use The Word Cancer

It has been politely brought to my attention that my use of the word cancer is hateful and bitter.
As a survivor of cancer, it is a disease I am constantly aware of and wary of - no matter where it is found or in what form. Up until less than 10 years ago, the use of the word in any context was practically whispered, the fear of the disease was so great. In the past ten years, with the onset of reality television, truth in advertising, and the lack of restrictive censorship in television programming and news stories, cancer is now a buzz word. Communities everywhere are holding walkathons and other fund raisers, for breast cancer research especially, that make the news. The colour pink has become so popular you see it everywhere these days. And as a survivor, I can't help but have that word forever etched in the forefront of my mind. The nature of the disease is an allegory really for many things in life - especially on the net. Society today is so devoid of the enforcement of social standards, that all kinds of abuses that start with one tiny idea or comment grow and multiply and infect the psyche of more people in shorter periods of time, than at any other point in history. The internet has been the most effective facilitator of this because it deals with the 'written word'. If it appears in 'black and white' then it must be true!
People accept what they read anywhere on the net much more easily than they would if the exact same thing was being spoken to them face to face in real life. To me - that instant acceptance of the written word as the 'whole truth and nothing but the truth' is a kind of internet disease that can be likened to a cancer.
So I have used the analogy of the disease of cancer as my reference to the abuses I see and have/will report on, on the net. Internet abuse is growing, person by person, cell by cell. The very nature of the net allows it, promotes it, feeds it. Without censorship it will continue to grow, as more and more people become open to attack by simply becoming a presence on the net. That doesn't make it ok. Too many other things in today's society are being accepted simply because greater and greater numbers of people 'are doing it'. This has only led to the breakdown of the values and standards of our society. The forward momentum of new technology leaves no room for taking a break and thinking through all the permutations of any given change so quickly thrust upon us by that ever changing technology. We are in a constant race socially and economically to keep up to our modern age, that we have lost the ability to simply be 'ladies and gentlemen'. And that too, is a kind of cancer.
So, take it or leave it folks - there is no more evocative word that I can use, to capture attention for the points I want to illustrate, than the word cancer.