Thread: As a Teacher's Aid, I encountered a child with sociopathic behaviour

So I'm helping teach an animationvideo game designer summer camp, and of course, a lot of the kids are game fans and youtube lovers. So during our breaks and often during class we have a lot of kids playing games and watching videos. We get a lot of kids playing things like Minecraft, and then we get a lot of kids playing flashed based violence games First Person Shooters, beat 'em ups, the random stuff from Newgrounds and yesterday I watched a kid play something where, after a brief discussion with him, I was a bit disturbed. It wasn't the game where everyone's cursing and getting head shots, it wasn't the overly bloody beat 'em up, it wasn't fighting games with spine removal finishing moves. It was Minecraft. The kid was playing on a server owned by someone else, and he was playing 'Hunger Games' mode. He eventually dies, and goes into what looks like the open world area, inputs some console commands and pulls out his diamond pick axe. He finds 3 guys just building a dirt bridge across the lake and goes 'This is what I like to do for fun' and proceeds to swap to a shovel, input the fly command, dig out the dirt under the two guys FIRST, and once they fall, fly backwards demolishing their bridge. Then, waits for them to come back, once they start trying to rebuild it, dig out the ground, open the water and says 'Did I drown them?' with a hopeful voice. So I ask him 'Why are you being a jerk to those other guys?' noticing that they're not trying to troll him back, but say things like 'Stop being a jerk' and 'Go away', but he ignores them and says 'It's fun.' 'But then no one's going to want to play with you.' 'There are four hundred people on this server, I don't care if two hundred don't like me,' Then he proceeds to explain how he paid 50 real dollars to get access to a bunch of powers, like flight, x-ray vision, instant access to a giant storage chest with console commands, etc. He goes on to talk about how he and his cousin trolled the entire server by killing people with lava, then the admins turned off lava, but only in the method of dropping the lava block on people. So they'd put lava under ground, use x-ray vision and wait for people to walk by, dig out the ground and they'd die. Admins turned that off. So next they'd start surrounding people with obsidian, and filling it with water, admins turned that off. So they did it with sand. I'm sitting there, thinking 'This kid's doing the modern day equivalent of beating the crap out of animals.' A 12 year old with no empathy for other people he's interacting with. He constantly tests the limits of how he can be abusive towards other people but remain within the rules. The only negative he seems to have is getting punished, not what his actions do to other people. The more I thought about this, the more I felt significantly disturbed. Kids getting free form access to the internet at such early ages seem to devolve into a self serving, empathy free state and I worry that it could translate to real life easily, moreso than what we have now, especially with how easily they gain access and understanding to all these things they find online. Doing whatever they want to whoever they want within the written word of the law, with the only restraint the fear of punishment and not the worry of inflicted discomfort or pain onto others.