Karma: a poll

[LostOne4Ever]

15. I don't believe in it.

[font size=4 color=teal]We live in nigh crapsack world where people die struggling in vain for their ideals, and where sociopaths are exalted.

Karma is a seductive idea that plays to our wishful thinking.

It assumes that there is justice in the world. That the injustices we see will eventually be corrected and that the good will win out in the end. It is easy. It is reassuring. However, depending on how far one takes it, karma becomes nothing more than victim blaming. Everything we do we bring upon ourselves.

The woman disfigured in a car accident did something in a past life to deserve it.

The reality is, that there is no justice in this world except that for which we bring about ourselves.

If we want even a small measure of justice we have to sacrifice for it. We have to be just in our own actions, and we cannot afford to be apathetic to the injustice going on around us. It requires backbreaking work, endless effort, an indomitable mentality, and accepting the fact that we will fail and to keep going anyways.

The reality is not easy, not reassuring, and quite often painful. But it is the world we live in. [/font]