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orangecrush

(19,624 posts) Mon Jan 11, 2021, 10:15 AM Jan 2021

That's no shit, Sherlock

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That's no shit, Sherlock (Original Post) orangecrush Jan 2021 OP

Nice. The Polack MSgt Jan 2021 #1

In Sherlock Holmes novels, maybe. But real life doesn't always conform to such magical thinking. Towlie Jan 2021 #2

Have you been paying attention since Wednesday? orangecrush Jan 2021 #3

Yes, it's karma, which the fictional Sherlock Holmes apparently believed in. That is not reality. Towlie Jan 2021 #4

The Polack MSgt

(13,199 posts)

1. Nice.

Reply to orangecrush (Original post)

Mon Jan 11, 2021, 10:26 AM

Jan 2021

Towlie

(5,328 posts)

2. In Sherlock Holmes novels, maybe. But real life doesn't always conform to such magical thinking.

Reply to orangecrush (Original post)

Mon Jan 11, 2021, 11:09 AM

Jan 2021

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I don't consider it at all constructive to promote the belief that one can just sit back and depend upon karma to right wrongs.

orangecrush

(19,624 posts)

3. Have you been paying attention since Wednesday?

Reply to Towlie (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 11, 2021, 11:12 AM

Jan 2021

It isn't Karma at all.

Towlie

(5,328 posts)

4. Yes, it's karma, which the fictional Sherlock Holmes apparently believed in. That is not reality.

Reply to orangecrush (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 11, 2021, 11:19 AM

Jan 2021

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"The Speckled Band"

Justice

Dr. Roylott is killed with his own weapon and as Holmes puts it, "Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another". Roylott is a victim of karma, but he is not only being punished for killing his niece. It also seems he is being punished for meddling with dangerous (foreign) animals.

The quote is not something that Doyle himself necessarily believed but rather something his fictional character says.

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