Instead of making criminals pay, karma could have put an obstacle in their way before they had the opportunity to hurt someone.
This obsession with universal laws or spiritual essences or gods that wait until bad things happen --or worse, that let people do bad things repeatedly and only 'stop' them after they die-- is confusing. Can't someone come up with a god or a karma that stops bad things from happening instead of letting it happen so that it can visit more bad things on the perpetrator? Why is karma so fucking evil and stupid?
This obsession with universal laws or spiritual essences or gods that wait until bad things happen --or worse, that let people do bad things repeatedly and only 'stop' them after they die-- is confusing. Can't someone come up with a god or a karma that stops bad things from happening instead of letting it happen so that it can visit more bad things on the perpetrator? Why is karma so fucking evil and stupid?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
