Infinite regress and debunking karma

[Sicnoo0]

Karma is not a theory because there is no evidence for it and no testability in it.

But in its lack of rigor is also its ability to find ad hoc ways to avoid the objection you posed.

Bob may have done a misdeed, but the effect of his misdeed may be delayed and the suffering it causes to make it an misdeed is not experienced by his victims until he himself has been karmically punished for the misdeed.

I hadn't even thought about the delayed suffering situation. That would certainly be a way to make karma compatible with a first sufferer. That's actually a very large hole in my argumentation that a first sufferer implies that karma cannot be real. 

In that view, it's like if you're the first sufferer and the universe predicts that your actions will cause suffering, then the universe will arrange a future for you such that you end up suffering before any suffering has been experienced by your victim.

But yeah, Karma isn't a theory. It doesn't make testable predictions.