What’s Wrong With Karma?
So if Karma is an ethical system with right and wrong built into it, why might that not be a good thing?
The only answer I can see if karma is real is that someone set it up. Someone knew already what is good and what is harmful and arranged an ethically based system to punish and reward. Now to me, that means either what we do here is already known to be good or bad and we’re playing a pretty useless game or else whoever set it up IS NOT US!
If it’s the first option then it smacks of the Christian God - ‘now I know you’re going to fail this because I know it all, and I made you so i know you will be unable to resist the challenge, but don’t eat from that tree over there, because I love you but if you eat from it not only will it doom you both but every single human ever to be born.’
With such love, one doesn’t need an enemy.
If it is the second idea, that whoever set up the karma system is not us, then we seem to be the subjects of some kind of experiment, to not be here of our choosing and to be trying to find our way through a maze more complicated than any we have stuck a mouse into.
And given the religious backing for virtually all the karma principles, one must then suspect the whole foundation of the religions. If someone sets up a system within which you have to live, with no way for you to work out the details of the system without leaving it, and then imposes an unknown punishment/reward system on all within the system, surely we have to suspect the motives of whoever set it up?
Something seems wrong with the whole idea of karma and to be honest, I don’t see a way around it - unless karma simply doesn’t exist at all.
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