[d11z]

It’s simply way too easy to get caught nowadays. I don’t think there’s much more to it, honestly. Even if an individual makes a concerted effort to avoid technology (phone, computer, etc), the sprawling surveillance infra only encompasses more each day.

[bugglebeetle]

Conversely, one wonders, perhaps in dread, how those impulses are otherwise being sublimated.

[becquerel]

The writing of regex, presumably

[petercooper]

My guess is it's like the psychology around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory or, more broadly, reflexivity and socialization.

People may not have any particular 'impulse' to violence in a stable, safe society, but may be all too ready to participate in violence in a violent society. Society does not solely reflect the people in it, people also reflect the society they're in.

[baud147258]

movies, video games, TV sports, snuff videos...