SL makes extreme?

You know, SL is sometimes really RL, only enlarged.

Love blooms faster, more intense and just as quickly ends. With a big bang or very quitely. Which makes the sadness about that lost love greater.
Traders on the stock exchange market tend to gamble more, companies promise more intrest, and go bankrup of dissapear with your money a lot faster.

Last summer there were two ‘wars’ in the SL design world.
1. There was a lawsuit against someone who had have copied and sold so called ‘Sexgen’ beds.
2. And then there’s the battle against the copying of textures and/or designs of some major fashiondesigners.

Issue 1 was handled neatly according to the law. The owner and designer of the beds hired an detective to find the person behind the avatar and sued him.

No. 2 is different. There is mud thrown, threats are made, and people get banned in certain malls. Various groups are handing out notecards and there’s a lot of gossip in groups IM’s.

What is it that makes people so extreme in second life? Is it the anonymity they experience? Does it give them the feeling they can say and do what they wouldn’t dare or simply just can’t in RL?

I don’t know, I just look at it and feel amazed…

Second Life makes extreme.