I cannot imagine ever going after someone like that, under any circumstance.
I cannot imagine ever going after someone like that, under any circumstance.
We're picturing villains, hateful characters, people with severe mental shortcomings. Deeply traumatized personalities looking for some retaliation.
Nope. It's your neighbor. That kind middle-aged guy walking his dog. The one that is considerate and intelligent enough to know better.
Several years back a dutch TV show proved this point. They did detective work to track down people making online death threats and confronted them at their door. Every single episode ended in the same anti-climax: completely "normal" people.
When pressed for an answer as to why they launched these threats...none could give a meaningful answer. They didn't even actually care about the matter at all.
Very few people would do the kinds of things they do behind the screen or wheel of a car when sitting face to face with someone IRL.
That's why many systems and programs fail, because we can only imagine how bad we are, and not how insanely awful the worst of us can act.