I read somewhere on social media that the internet was undefeated. It came from a post where someone exposed a football fan who roamed the streets of Baltimore and beat up random fans of the other team. His buddy recorded him doing such a heinous act. The one who assaulted them was obviously drunk and possibly hopped up on other drugs as well, maybe cocaine, maybe bath salts, only if he was biting necks or something, so I doubted it. He was wearing a football jersey and stood well over six feet in the video, a big man, and started attacking people wearing jerseys for the other team on a sidewalk.

It was a short video, under a minute, and at the end, he looked into the camera, flexed his biceps, and said, “I don’t lose.”

What a monster, I thought. I read the comments, which was why I went on there. It was entertaining to read from the dregs of society, most of which were illiterate. All of them attacked the perpetrator in the video as if they were on a moral high ground. They went as far as finding the perpetrator’s name and where he worked. Some of them contacted his employer and showed the video. The employer ended up firing him and posting a message of their own, saying he no longer worked for the company and that they didn’t stand for such behavior.

The police used the video as evidence for his arrest. Thousands of people called him all sorts of names in the comment section and wrote things such as what was going to happen to him in jail and how his life was ruined, and that they would beat his ass if they ever saw him.

But I had to wonder, how many of those people were hypocrites? How many of them committed battery themselves? A good percentage I believed. Only they weren’t caught on camera. Only a fool who was intoxicated in public would do such a thing. When the video was rolling, I bet his friend was drunk too. A lot of those people thought the man who shot the video should be punished. I guessed they were right. Actually, this sort of behavior, drunk people wandering around and assaulting others at sporting events, went on long before this incident and long before camera phones were invented. But these people treated it like it was a new occurrence.

Anyway, the perpetrator’s life was ruined. He got what he deserved, and so on. But I didn’t saint those who attacked him online. A lot of them were probably just as despicable.