Why can't some people accept and respect others opinions?

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If there is one thing I noticed lately it is that people get very defensive when others have a different opinion on certain things, especially the more moral topics.
For example, where I live, a woman has just published a book about how she left her terminally ill and alcoholic partner a few weeks before his death because she couldn't handle the situation anymore. When I say that I am able to understand this woman on a messageboard (which doesn't mean that I would do the same if I was in her situation. I mean; in the end I don't know what I would do...) people immediately accuse me of being an egocentric twat, crazy, an immoral b***h, a wrong person without empathy. I don't understand why these people cannot respond in an accepting way. Instead they become very personal and hostile. The funny thing is that these same people will dismiss someone else's opinion as "politically correct" or "whiny" when other topics (such as racism, the Iraq war, the immigrant policy, abortion) are discussed. I find this very strange.

I see many of these things going on on the internet. It kind of makes me sad about the future of humanity...

I think people are using online communication as an outlet, to release the tension caused by their fakeness in the social circus.
But they are accustomed to pretend, so with some issues, they have issues, and cannot express themselves truthfully.
How they are in the online world is not how they are in real life. I hope.

I notice this all the time.

whether autistic or not, people whose personality is totaly built around ego centrism and have never learned to become more open minded will never accept other peoples views.

dad is exactly this,he is an informaly diagnosed aspie in his late sixties and he always was someone who believed his opinion was the right one,even when it was totaly wrong and woud hurt someone else.
when proven wrong, he woudnt accept it like the rest of us he woud carry on acting like his view was still fact.

am not sure if they mean it in a joke way but people have always said 'oh,its because he is a man/dad, they all think theyre right' but am somehow not sure being naturaly left brained dominant is the cause nor shoud being a dad.