Our scrawl would probably have given us away and got us in serious trouble. Even worse, the plan might have worked. Aggression is obsessive and often, like molten lava, takes the path of least resistance. Get loaded, grab a gun and fire. But my revenge fantasies rarely involve just a shootout.
Aggression can also be inventive, devious, and enormously creative.
In the virtual world, crude versions of aggression are available, as any frequenter of chat rooms knows. But online, where barriers to imagination are lowered by anonymity, more inventive forms of aggression are starting to grow their wings. Adults are certainly getting into the act. Internet auctioneers face increasing fraud. Divorced spouses deliberately destroy their ex's credit rating and wait for the financial cybergods to wreak their revenge.