Some time it is best to leave sleeping dogs lie.. Some one woke me up..

What do I mean by " Copper wire Courage"?

This is the courage that many people manage when they have a kilometer (mile) or two of copper wire between them and another person..

This is where an otherwise logical thinking, slowly angered polite person can become rude, obnoxious, easily angered, and sometimes violent..

Examples of this is where an otherwise polite person will, abuse a companies switchboard operator, just for asking the persons name while transfering a call.
Or when talking to a person you are having a dispute with, a settlement is easily reached.. but place a length of copper in between and the the conversation becomes a heated argument..

The same goes for forum sites like this.. Vis some threads of only this week.. place a computer and a few hundred miles of copper and glass between two people and the effect is the same..


Why is this so? your thoughts here please..
I have a few starter areas of my own..

1/ Lack of eye contact: people are unable to trust and are angered easily by people they can't make eye contact with (more phone than internet)
2/ A security by obscurity : You don't realy know who I am, you cant see me .. My Identity is obscure and you won't be able to retaliate
3/ Security by copper: (Castle wall Effect) I have 100km of copper between you and me.. so you cant hurt me.

It seems many of us have either been the Agressor or the agresee or both in this sort of incedent.. certainly I have been both..

So any other thoughts..

Cheers