Friday, November 18, 2011

It's Just Karma...........Right ..??

...Yeaaahhhhhh not so much.

                Why not? Initially, Karma doesn't sound that unreasonable. If you make bad choices, you're likely to fall into bad situations. If you seek to be mentally aware and attentive in your present moment, considerate of your actions and their consequences, you're more likely to make wise choices with better outcomes. However, the flaws reveal themselves you get into the nitty-gritty of how Karma really works. Firstly, Karma acts on the principle that life in and of itself is fair. That is to say, every bad action will eventually lead to something bad happening to you (in essence, your bad choices fate you to bad life situations), and every good action will lead to some little bonus of goodness down the line somewhere in the same manner. However, how does that account for crooked people living successful, happy lives ? Or good people living crappy lives? Or, worst to consider, evils falling upon innocent children too young to have yet done any good or any wrong ? It simply cannot, unless it were to be defined as a repercussion of some evil done by one of the parents, making it instead a consequence for the parent. Even then, however, that could not possibly be Karma, as the death or harm of something innocent negates the idea that there was also some previous action of the child's that brought it -of it's own power - presently into the hands of those particular people in that moment in time to catch that disease or partake of that genetic flaw or even be killed. The child had not yet stored up any positive or negative Karma, therefore this occurrence would be considered unjust on the part of that younger-but-no-less-human child. Secondly, in order to make choices that are Karmicly positive, apparently one is supposed to pull some sort of Cosmic Humanist BS and -i exaggerate- feel for some bodily reaction consisting of either vomiting or getting retardedly giddy to know what's right. Two problems with this: it is assuming that all human moral compasses point true, and that there are sorts of absolute-ish moral rights and wrongs which, apparently, need not have an origin except in one's individually upset stomach. People justify doing bad things all the time, and sometimes they don't meet the consequences until they meet God. The funny thing is, if they do "bad" things, but they receive no repercussions, how can that thing be then deemed "bad" or "wrong" ? If the only place these standards come from is some result, some point in time, that was unfavorable, or bile in the back of your throat, there can be no "good" or "wrong" decisions. There can only be decisions, and the twisted playing of Fate by a thing called Chance. Wrong things can have good decisions, or something done that wasn't morally wrong can just result in something bad...etc, etc. Nothing's fair, people are dumb, and morals cannot be weighted by a bad case of IBS.

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