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The debate over the “Phillies Karen” incident has been wild, from the people mocking the baseball fan who yelled at a man who grabbed a home-run ball and gave it to his son, to people arguing over whether the father did right by his son by giving the angry woman the ball.

At the center of the maelstrom is the question of character.

Character is famously defined as what you do when no one is looking. Social media says character is what you do when everyone is looking.

It’s a precarious change since we are all one kiss-cam away from having our worst decisions broadcast to the world and archived for posterity, like dirty laundry hanging on a

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