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by mobileturdfctry 324 days ago
This could have some merit. I do question, though, why someone would spend time gaming a system when they could be living their lives and enjoying their families and friends and other things that life has to offer? Could you see yourself doing that? Or perhaps your life is already rich enough that you couldn't imagine wasting your time on something like that? The point is it seems there is a threshold, below which extremism seems to thrive.

I do agree that people with real mental health issues, who only want to see death and destruction of the people and world around them might think it would be fun, but I'd argue that those people wouldn't be very effective at achieving that goal.