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Comment author: FiftyTwo 06 May 2012 12:46:10PM 0 points [-]

Personally I don't fantasise about violence in itself as much as the exercise of power and control. Not sure how common that is, but possibly if you generally feel out of control the most obvious way for you to exer some seems to be violence (whereas for me its people doing what I tell them to).