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WhiteMan ago

Well said. The Law of Karma is in effect. Stand by your morals. Live an upright life. Don't steal. Don't deceive. Don't kill. Always do what is right. Then no one will have anything over you. Also stay out of debt, thats their trap.

Yixdee ago

Don't kill.

If I wrote some software, designed a button, when the button was pushed and 100,000 died, did I kill them?

I no longer feel there is a connection between righteousness, morality, and martial neutrality.

If you decide to be a pacifist in the face of murderous exponential growth of terror - when some well placed wet work would slow down the operational tempo of this endless war -

then wouldn't it be morally right to execute a few thousand warhawks? Because by your action you would be preventing hundreds of millions from being slaughtered by a single button push?

So that Dick Cheney can have 6 homes instead of 3?

greatgonzochops ago

"If I wrote some software, designed a button, when the button was pushed and 100,000 died, did I kill them?"

No. The karmatic debt is placed on the button pusher, not the one who coerced them. That's why free will is important to understand. The Universe isn't interested in your "rationale" or why an event occurred, just that it did occur, I think that's the principle of cause & effect, so there will be a opposing reaction to said event. Just like gravity doesn't care if you don't understand it, the same applys with other laws in play.