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Indeed I think the link between frustration and aggression is demonstrated all around us each day. With some people, it may be a political debate(sadly), a tough time debugging some code, or perhaps getting headshot one too many times in CS:S. I think politics have definitely caused aggression and ultimately harm/death to some of those involved. We've seen this throughout history. When dealing with inanimate, non-sentient(sometimes this appears arguable) things such as a bug in a computer application, we may be tempted to take a bat to our dev box, or perhaps we just get a bit irritated and snarky with those around us. It isn't their fault though. It's not so much that we want to channel the anger at them as it is we need an outlet for the frustration. That outlet should be something else constructive. In the last case, the adversary is a human being, much like politics. However, with the advent of the internet, the online adversary is somewhat anonymous and the interaction is not as personal. With that comes trolling and uncooth AC's. Perhaps without the ability to identify the outlet for their frustration (the specific online individual grieving them), people ultimately bottle up their anger and then start taking out their frustrations on innocent people in the real world.