Humans are inherently cowards.
Why do I say this? As we go about our day, most us suppress the evil within us. And we let our evil manifest in other ways that we know that we suffer little to no consequences of. You know what I mean - Women(and sometimes men too) are molested on new year parties and in clubs, fights happen mostly at night with the darkness as a veil, people hide behind computer screens and send viruses almost arbitrarily. All these are just a few of the examples of people doing what they naturally would because they know that they can get away with it. This means two things : That the law is the only thing keeping the world intact, and that it suppresses human nature at the same time.
This isn't to say I condone dressing up in a weird suit and threatening to hurt a lot of people - While people like these tend to make for interesting plotlines, it's also people like this that upset the balance of the world, however much fun it is for them. However, the nature of human curiosity is such that the cowardly evil cause the most frustration to others, because humans naturally have noses the size of the Himalayas - They just have to know everything, and telling them otherwise only makes them stress otherwise - Forbidden Fruit Syndrome, if you will.
Let's take the internet, for example. The reason online gaming is so addictive is because it allows people to communicate with others without having to show the true side of themselves, without having to step out of their comfort zone. This makes it equally easy to get away with flaming, trolling, betraying your online buddies, and so on, which makes it equally frustrating in some respects, thereby causing people to play even more so they can do the same to others or hunt down whoever did it in the first place. I've seen bloggers rant on about anonymous flamers on their tagboard, which never really struck me as very smart - Their obviously arguing with inferior people who don't have much of a life in any respect and who obviously don't have enough respect to give themselves even a fake name. A random e-mail address sending you a virus gets rather irritating because you don't know where it comes from - The chances of it being Deep Blue malfuctioning are roughly equal to that of a very outdone,resentful and frustrated David copperfield sitting in front of Deep Blue, functioning.
There is a part of all of us that is like that,sadly. We just need to accept it.
Why do I say this? As we go about our day, most us suppress the evil within us. And we let our evil manifest in other ways that we know that we suffer little to no consequences of. You know what I mean - Women(and sometimes men too) are molested on new year parties and in clubs, fights happen mostly at night with the darkness as a veil, people hide behind computer screens and send viruses almost arbitrarily. All these are just a few of the examples of people doing what they naturally would because they know that they can get away with it. This means two things : That the law is the only thing keeping the world intact, and that it suppresses human nature at the same time.
This isn't to say I condone dressing up in a weird suit and threatening to hurt a lot of people - While people like these tend to make for interesting plotlines, it's also people like this that upset the balance of the world, however much fun it is for them. However, the nature of human curiosity is such that the cowardly evil cause the most frustration to others, because humans naturally have noses the size of the Himalayas - They just have to know everything, and telling them otherwise only makes them stress otherwise - Forbidden Fruit Syndrome, if you will.
Let's take the internet, for example. The reason online gaming is so addictive is because it allows people to communicate with others without having to show the true side of themselves, without having to step out of their comfort zone. This makes it equally easy to get away with flaming, trolling, betraying your online buddies, and so on, which makes it equally frustrating in some respects, thereby causing people to play even more so they can do the same to others or hunt down whoever did it in the first place. I've seen bloggers rant on about anonymous flamers on their tagboard, which never really struck me as very smart - Their obviously arguing with inferior people who don't have much of a life in any respect and who obviously don't have enough respect to give themselves even a fake name. A random e-mail address sending you a virus gets rather irritating because you don't know where it comes from - The chances of it being Deep Blue malfuctioning are roughly equal to that of a very outdone,resentful and frustrated David copperfield sitting in front of Deep Blue, functioning.
There is a part of all of us that is like that,sadly. We just need to accept it.
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