The thing is most people who rationalize getting down and dirty were inclined to that approach in the first place. If you observe most comment forums for any length of time, you see that an awful lot of people do not need any sort of just motive to embrace down and dirty. The other thing is that the return of fire is used by the target to justify even more outgoing fire. A good example is the recent MTG clip where she goes on about not liking "that kind of language " and then responding with that same kind of language. Rejecting the rules may gratify some emotions, but it does not actually accomplish the goal.
Asymmetry. We will look back at a lot of our insistence in playing by the rules as the cause of the destruction of the game.
The thing is most people who rationalize getting down and dirty were inclined to that approach in the first place. If you observe most comment forums for any length of time, you see that an awful lot of people do not need any sort of just motive to embrace down and dirty. The other thing is that the return of fire is used by the target to justify even more outgoing fire. A good example is the recent MTG clip where she goes on about not liking "that kind of language " and then responding with that same kind of language. Rejecting the rules may gratify some emotions, but it does not actually accomplish the goal.
Maybe not the cause, but definitely a contributor.