Hemant Mehta

[The Grand Nudger]

So, how many of them can I kick..then, before karma does something to me?  What's the karmic footprint on there, and is there any karmic offset plan to allow for, say, the kicking of twenty dogs if I also donate to the local dog pound?  I'm just wondering how one goes about becoming karma neutral.

It all depend Kem.
Suppose a dog attack you.

Na, not that.  No attack...just wondering about kicking dogs for the hell of it.

You have the right to defend yourself whether you kick the dog away twenty or hundred times or in any other way that may stop it from keep on attacking you and in this case no karma is involved.

Rights?  I live in Murica, not Rikistan.  I'm not asking you about any rights.

On the other hand if you kick a dog that did nothing to you then you will attract bad karma and if you donate to a dog pound you also may attract karma.
Again it depend.

-uh huh, and I'm wondering just how many of the bad kind of dog kickings will land me in karmic peril?  Ballpark figure.  Also, wondering what sort of things cover for..say..kicking 20 dogs? Say I help an old lady across the street, how many dogs is that worth, karmically?

If you expect no thanks and no later rewards you do not attract any good karma but if you expect any thing in return then you attrack good karma.
Also good karma is not that good because in the future good karma will have to be repaid to you.
That means that you will have to be reborn again to experience that reward.
To be born once again means to be stuck in an other body once again.
Why would you want that considering that you just delay once again your freedom?  

Again, Murica, got plenty of freedom..just trying to get some info on this vague "karma" business you're setting up. I assume you'd know these specifics, what with all the institutional science you've applied to the subject.