There were bullies long before the internet. indeed, throughout history lynching, witch burning, genocide - it's part of the human condition. What's new is the easy public forum. Used to be you had to have access to a printing press or a radio tower to spread your opinions, and generally (but not always) there were social controls preventing the spread of hate-speech by those media. Haters might grumble at the dinner table, or form small clubs to share their hate, but they couldn't put it out there in such a big way. As for VR as an answer - Not everyone will use VR to join the discussion - I'm using a QWERTY keyboard. Not sure what your vision is. By experiencing VR discussion groups, as if you were on a TV talk show? people are going to be nice to each other. Plenty of TV talk shows are not so civil.