Bullish on Karma

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(Note: this post is not about secular law or the criminal justice system.)

Our rational brains tell us thst there is no Divine Justice that is meted out in this life. Even most sincere Christians don't believe in justice in the here-and-now---there are too many examples of bad things happening to good people and vice versa.

Occasionally a miscreant does receive his comeuppance, but rather than attributing the balancing of scales to God or Allah, the mysterious force is now called karma. An example from earlier this month. [bold added]

Shortly after President Trump’s early-morning revelation on Twitter last week that he and his wife, Melania, had tested positive for Covid-19, one of the top trending terms on Twitter was “karma.” Critics of the administration used the word to convey what they saw as a kind of poetic justice for Mr. Trump publicly playing down the threats of the coronavirus pandemic...

The word “karma” derives from Hindu and Buddhist teachings about reincarnation, which hold that people’s actions in their current lives, good or bad, determine what their fate will be in future existences. Used more generally in English, “karma” alludes to a vaguer concept that your destiny stems from how you live your life. Put another way: You reap what you sow.

One problem with karma is that it doesn't always show up. Another is that it can be short-lived: now that President and Mrs. Trump apparently have recovered, one rarely sees the term.

Expect usage of karma to increase markedly in a couple of weeks, after the election results are in. That's what happens when the contest is no longer between the policies of D versus the policies of R but a battle between good and evil.

As the media has told us, both of the leading Presidential candidates have plenty of evil actions to answer for. There will be a lot of karma that will be going around, but even at this late date we aren't sure who the recipient(s) will be.