Real worlds are filled with dirt, hazards, sensation, pleasure, effort and more. The virtual world is clean, colourful, free of danger and effortless.
Heh, and then come along malware authors, spammers and scammers. I doubt virtual worlds will be entire free of danger; just as it's possible to break a leg through stupidity, I imagine it'll still be just as easy to delete C:\Windows ;)
You are correct in saying that the virtual world is not free from hazards. However, the difference is in feedback and evolutionary development.
In the real world, you feel the snakebite or the hot stove burner. When approached by a stranger or walking through an unknown neighborhood, thousands of years of predator-prey evolution gives you the feeling that something is wrong and you should flee.
We haven't evolved these levels of intuition for the virtual world. I can open a harmless looking email and infect my home network with a virus and never know it happened. I can't reliably tell if the person I'm chatting with is a predator or a friend.
Yes, the virtual world is in no way safer, cleaner than the real world. And certainly not always more colorful. It's a bit of a misconception based on the fairytale told by marketing departments of tech companies, which try to push their happy-go-lucky walled-garden virtual worlds.
Heh, and then come along malware authors, spammers and scammers. I doubt virtual worlds will be entire free of danger; just as it's possible to break a leg through stupidity, I imagine it'll still be just as easy to delete C:\Windows ;)