You're right, Ken. That did sound weird. Violence is always an option. No amount of ambiguously gendered paper dolls is going to convince little Johnny not to stab little Suzie with those craft scissors if he really feels like it. Instinct vs. action is the real mitigating factor in the world. If you've got that twitch, you either destroy or self-destruct. Even little girls drive their dream car off the dream cliff sometimes.
I'd rather a barbed wire fence than a white picket one. If I'm the one choosing, and I usually am.
Potential for what?
For most people, the clock is obscured behind a curtain anyway, so it really doesn't matter.