Instead, with two pals, I conspired to steal a teacher-parent form, forge my teacher's signature, write a scathing report on Chuck's classroom behavior and mail it to his father. His father was well-known as a bully, too, and we were sure that, instead of calling the teacher after reading the note, his dad would kick the crap out of Chuck. Thankfully, the friend who was supposed to mail the document chickened out. 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.