You don?t like him because he?s opinionated. Or because he?s a Republican. Or because of his business acumen. Or because he pitched against your favorite team.Say what you want about him. He couldn?t care less.Say what you want about his daughter, though, and you?ve got a fight on your hands.Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling tweeted last week his pride that his daughter, Gabby, had been accepted to Salve Regina University in Rhode Island, where she will pitch for the softball team.What he got back were some expected messages of congratulations. What he didn?t expect was the flood of disgusting, vile, vulgar, contemptible, disgusting messages in which rape and sexual assault were a common theme.So, Schilling did what many fathers would do. He fought back.At least two of the Twitter trolls are paying the price. Sean MacDonald, a graduate of Montclair State University in New Jersey, had been working since January as a part-time ticket seller for – ready for this – the New York Yankees. He was fired Monday.?We have zero tolerance for anything like this,” said Jason Zillo, the Yankees? executive director of communications and media relations. “We?ve terminated him.”Adam Nagel is a student at Brookdale Community College in New Jersey. He has been suspended pending a conduct review by the school.Good luck to him defending that.Schilling is taking legal action against some of the trolls.?I?ve already started in some cases,” Schilling said Tuesday by phone from his Medfield home.?She?s a minor, and the one thing that is moving at light speed is the laws with regard to minors and sex on the Internet.?And these idiots are – people are asking me if I feel bad. Well, I?d feel bad if my daughter killed herself. And if something happened to these guys, I?d feel bad. But I didn?t do anything. They did.”What they did and wrote should shock the senses of any person who has an ounce of knowing what?s right and wrong. Then again, maybe we shouldn?t be shocked. Schilling titled his blog post, “The world we live in ? Man has it changed.”And he?s right about that. The online world is not the world most of us grew up in. Screen names give a false fearlessness to some people – in this case it was almost all young men.Yes, times have changed. Language is more lax. Curse words are more commonplace. But have we lowered the bar so low that some people think these kinds of online posts are acceptable?Many women who have ventured into the sometimes-treacherous landscape of social media know firsthand how ugly it can be. Especially if people can respond under the guise of anonymity. (How?d that work out for you, Sean MacDonald and Adam Nagel?)Post a picture of yourself and you?re either too pretty or not pretty enough, too fat, too skinny, too old, too young, too something that someone somewhere doesn?t like. And they?re going to let you know it. Sometimes in the most reprehensible wording possible. Post an opinion or a thought and some people are going to let you know what you can do with them.But why??I think that most of these people are little boys, mentally,” Schilling said. “So you don?t expect them to act and react like normal human adults.”He?s not far off.?The answer is a little bit complicated and counterintuitive,” said Dr. Emily Rothman, an associate professor at Boston University?s School of Public Health who studies sexual violence.?What I would say first is there?s no one right answer. I don?t know these individuals. Who knows what?s going on with each one of them? There could be a different explanation for each one of them as to why they would do something like this because there are a lot of factors that go into it. So, anyone who tells you, ?Oh, it boils down to something simple. They all (do the same thing).?? Whatever that one thing is, it?s not right.?Because when people behave sexually aggressively it could be for any combination of reasons because there?s multiple factors that can go into it. They run the gamut. What makes some beh