Yesterday I and my friend were having a discussion about whether
should we have confidence in karma or no. I feel it’s all like all that dramatic
bullshit. You take a large idea, and give it a large meaning and poof! Karma gives
people a misapprehension of reasonableness or equality when the world by and
large is completely and utterly unfair. Even before I learned about Just-world
hypothesis, I find the entire premise of karma ridiculous. People said: don't
do bad things because Karma will get you. That's just utilitarianism, isn't it?
So you do good things because Karma will reward you, not because it is the right thing to do; you don't do bad things because Karma will punish you, not
because it is against your own personal principle and it might hurt other
people. (I have similar despise for the heaven and hell system of most
religions.)
And when you see something wrong, instead of speaking up and
stepping up to fight against it, you hide and tell yourself "Karma will
get him!" I can't wait for Karma to work, if something is wrong, I need to
speak up. When I make conclusions I need to be true to my own belief regardless of what "Karma" would or would not do.
Chinese are huge on this entire karma thing; we have hundreds
of different proverbs and phrases to express "what goes around comes
around". I find it rather repulsive because I rarely see it act
positively. People whine about bad things, and yet none of them do anything
about it because "Karma will get the bad guys! They’ll get what they
deserve!" I disgust it. You can't rely on some intergalactic force to do
your own work.
And the worst part of "Karma", it empowers the
concept of victim-blaming. If Karma does exist, bad things cannot happen to
good people. In other words, if bad things happened to you, you must have done
something to deserve it. We see it all the time in many rapes, murder, etc cases
these days. People talked about it everywhere, while there's much compassion
for those victims, some people always say something like "well, they must
have done something to deserve that".
So no. I don't believe in Karma. I don't believe AIDS babies
had done something to deserve their fate. I don't believe women being beaten up
by their husbands because they have done something wrong in their lives. And I
certainly won't wait for Karma to get to the bad guys if I can do something
about it, even if it’s just speaking up. In short, we basically should not believe in any philosophy which
weakens your belief in yourself. That is the crux.
Rab Rakha!!!!!
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