The real reason is carelessness, the willingness to believe anything outrageous, and people being too lazy to take a closer look at what they're about to post and stop and reflect.
The real victim of their carelessness is Reeva Steenkamp.
"Scientists... need to understand that they are responsible for human lives, and their carelessness has real consequences for people and their families," says Naveen Sangji, Sheri Sangji's sister and a student at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
He adds, "Perhaps the errors of 'The Real Anita Hill' could be attributed to journalistic carelessness, ideological bias, and my misdirected quest for acceptance from a political movement.
Their distrust of rationalism and the modern, and their emphasis on the moi (a favorite stress of Baudelaire's), gave them scant alternative but to take refuge, or perhaps seek solace, in the sensuous wonders of the Orient and the heroic scenes of antiquity, while in real life they tended to exaggerated, even self-destructive carelessness.
The real adversary here is incompetence: the lack of reliable communication devices, the carelessness of the Chinook helicopter sent to rescue the men.
"With so many irregularities in Michigan — including more than 75,000 under-votes, many in urban areas, and widespread carelessness, and perhaps interference, with preserving ballots — there is a real possibility the rights of voters in Michigan may have been suppressed during this election," they said in a statement.
Christian was routinely humiliated by the captain often in front of the crew and the native Tahitians for real or imagined slackness, while severe punishments were handed out to men whose carelessness had led to the loss or theft of equipment.
Though these are not monsters in the traditional sense but the remains of people with real congenital deformities, they remind us that many imaginary monsters are merely variants on nature's own carelessness and cruelty.
