# When bad things happen to bad people. Your thoughts.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-bad-things-happen-to-bad-people-your-thoughts/716384>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 31, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-bad-things-happen-to-bad-people-your-thoughts/716384 "2015-03-31T01:40:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-bad-things-happen-to-bad-people-your-thoughts/716384/41 "2015-04-01T06:37:25Z")

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> [@Urbanredneck](#):
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> So who knows. Maybe a kind word to them in this there last days might cause a major turnaround and they will do one righteous act in their life like give money to a charity or something. At least you can say you tried.

Ha! That’s funny. If they wanted to change, they could do it at _any_ time during their life, they just choose not to. And any change that comes out of fear of death would be highly suspect, anyway.

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**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-bad-things-happen-to-bad-people-your-thoughts/716384/42 "2015-04-01T06:39:08Z")

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> [@Machine\_Elf](#):
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> I don’t begrudge **nearwildheaven** his/her bitterness; many of us were bullied in gradeschool, but some of us were bullied far worse than others. The fact that many other sympathized with him/her suggests that maybe those kinds of feelings were not unreasonable.

The problem I have with it is the dancing on the grave of someone who never harmed him. That’s just… crass.

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