Infinite regress and debunking karma
September 6, 2023 at 11:23 am
(This post was last modified: September 6, 2023 at 12:19 pm by Sicnoo0.)
According to the theory of Karma, all suffering is caused by your own misdeeds (any acts causing suffering to others) in a past life or this life.
Let's call the first being to ever suffer Bob.
According to the theory of Karma, Bob must have done something in a past life or this life which caused someone else to suffer.
This means that someone else suffered before Bob ever suffered, which contradicts our assumption that Bob was the first being to ever suffer.
We started with two premises (Karma is real, there was a being who was the first to ever suffer) and arrived at a contradiction, which means that one of the premises must be false.
I can't see a reason not to assume that there was indeed a first being to ever suffer, so therefore the premise which must be discarded is the premise that karma is real.
By a proof by contradiction I've shown that the theory of karma must be incorrect.
Let's call the first being to ever suffer Bob.
According to the theory of Karma, Bob must have done something in a past life or this life which caused someone else to suffer.
This means that someone else suffered before Bob ever suffered, which contradicts our assumption that Bob was the first being to ever suffer.
We started with two premises (Karma is real, there was a being who was the first to ever suffer) and arrived at a contradiction, which means that one of the premises must be false.
I can't see a reason not to assume that there was indeed a first being to ever suffer, so therefore the premise which must be discarded is the premise that karma is real.
By a proof by contradiction I've shown that the theory of karma must be incorrect.
