By David G. Firestone
Just a quick column this week. If you’ve been on the internet for ten seconds in the last few weeks, you’ve probably heard of “Phillies Karen.” If you somehow haven’t, let me remind you. In short, after a father got a home run ball for his son, Phillies Karen walked up, and screamed at him, until he gave her the ball. The Phillies, obviously embarrassed by this situation, was nice and kind to the family.
The internet, as is often the case, was out for blood. The search for who Phillies Karen is underway, with several suspects wrongfully accused.
A question that has been asked about us as a culture is why do we support the “bullying” of these kinds of people. Well, there is a very simple answer. We enjoy watching bad people get what they deserve. Every single one of these stories always ends with the bully getting their noses broken, their eyes blackened, and their teeth knocked out. They lose their jobs, and get humiliated.
Be it sports fans who bully other fans, a veterinarian who kicks a pony, racists bullying minorities, or just being jerks, bullies never change. I’m not going out on a limb when I say that, many people have been bullied, be it at school, at work, or somewhere else. So when we see a bully get bullied, it makes us happy. Good people having good things happen to them is a good thing. Bad people having bad things happen to them is also a good thing. Anytime a bad person gets what they deserve, we are happy as it makes the world a better place.
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