There are, obviously, no police inworld. Sometimes, self-defense is all you’ve got. Before now, I’ve had to draw a weapon and blow people off my land to discontinue attacks. Look at that sentence again. It makes me sound like I’m living on frontier land, or, perhaps, like I’ve become a mad farmer with a shotgun. Is there a case to be made for Second Life as the lawless digital Wild West, where sometimes a man has to slap leather to defend his person and his homestead from the badmen and the road agents? It’s more than a little absurd. On the other hand, being ejected out of the world is a little more inconvenient than some freak running his mouth on a messageboard.

the state of SL weaponization