Sin & Forgiveness

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If you're reborn as a new life form, with no memory or any connection at all to the previous life you were, in what way are you still "you"? At most it seems like you'd keep the same reference number in an array. But everything else is totally different and unrelated.

I don't know why you'd want to believe that "gonna get raped" follows one person to another basically entirely new person with the same serial number. Luckily there is no evidence for this being the case, I don't even understand how it's supposed to work. The universe nudges a potential rapist? "Go on, she was a real bad person in her last life. Rape her." Unless there is some weird force actually influencing people's behaviour, then the concept makes no sense.

And then... because this guy was influenced to rape by this karma force, he should be held less responsible for doing it because he was under duress. Does karma make this allowance? For this karma to work, people would have to spend a lot of time under duress to mete out this weird form of justice. So how could their life then be judged fairly at the end, to give them a karma score? Karma ends up judging itself.