I love the original Die Hard movie. And I also loved the TV show "The A Team"..... But long after the fact, looking back, look at the general motif of that movie and most of the episodes of The A Team.
You have the bad guy robbing a business, and the moral is greed and crime do not pay.
Yea well ok, but these motifs are an oversimplification.
The original post was inspired by reading a tweet about a lion hunter who died while trying to hunt lions.
Point is nothing in life is an either/or proposition.
In the case of the lion hunter, yes, he is a dick, because lions are an endangered species. But no, I am not going to stop eating beef or chicken. And while I would not go out of my way, to kill an alligator living in the wild, if I had a kid, just like a lion, and that dangerous animal suddenly became a threat, it is a natural reaction to want to avoid that threat and stop it.
In the case of Die Hard, the hostages were innocent, but in the scope of reality globally it is nonsense to claim that 62 uber billionaires whom have the combined wealth 3 billion humans, are going to end up eating cat food. When you look at what causes revolutions, that go to more open societies, or revolutions that end up in more authoritarian closed states, it is still a reaction to that society not having it's needs met, all logic and ideology aside.
The point in all these examples, is that reality is messy, and is not a product of Hollywood nor is black and white. Sometimes the bad guy wins.
So again, "Karma" is not a real thing. And that and "An eye for an eye" are really nothing more than our emotional reactions to threats and our sense of relief when the threat is no longer there.
Having been bullied as a kid, when I got my nose broken by an ambush, hell yea, I felt a sense of justice when the ring leader was arrested and charged. But it could have easily been if they didn't rat each other out, it could have become a case of "he said he said" and very easily nothing would have happened. And even with murder cases, any detective can tell you, that if you don't get good clues/witnesses within days, the longer the investigation goes on, the harder it becomes to find a perp and charge them.
And again, Stalin, would be a perfect example of an evil person having success his entire life.
Karma is not a thing.
You have the bad guy robbing a business, and the moral is greed and crime do not pay.
Yea well ok, but these motifs are an oversimplification.
The original post was inspired by reading a tweet about a lion hunter who died while trying to hunt lions.
Point is nothing in life is an either/or proposition.
In the case of the lion hunter, yes, he is a dick, because lions are an endangered species. But no, I am not going to stop eating beef or chicken. And while I would not go out of my way, to kill an alligator living in the wild, if I had a kid, just like a lion, and that dangerous animal suddenly became a threat, it is a natural reaction to want to avoid that threat and stop it.
In the case of Die Hard, the hostages were innocent, but in the scope of reality globally it is nonsense to claim that 62 uber billionaires whom have the combined wealth 3 billion humans, are going to end up eating cat food. When you look at what causes revolutions, that go to more open societies, or revolutions that end up in more authoritarian closed states, it is still a reaction to that society not having it's needs met, all logic and ideology aside.
The point in all these examples, is that reality is messy, and is not a product of Hollywood nor is black and white. Sometimes the bad guy wins.
So again, "Karma" is not a real thing. And that and "An eye for an eye" are really nothing more than our emotional reactions to threats and our sense of relief when the threat is no longer there.
Having been bullied as a kid, when I got my nose broken by an ambush, hell yea, I felt a sense of justice when the ring leader was arrested and charged. But it could have easily been if they didn't rat each other out, it could have become a case of "he said he said" and very easily nothing would have happened. And even with murder cases, any detective can tell you, that if you don't get good clues/witnesses within days, the longer the investigation goes on, the harder it becomes to find a perp and charge them.
And again, Stalin, would be a perfect example of an evil person having success his entire life.
Karma is not a thing.
