Will be interesting to see how this plays out. (Have to sign in to read the whole article, but you can see the first couple paragraphs.)

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        if bad things happened to bad people, Donald Trump wouldn’t have ever gone further than “bit part in Home Alone 2” before ending up in prison. Karma is a comforting fairytale the aggrieved tell themselves to cope with an unjust world.

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          Actual karma (as in the religous concept of eastern faith and mythology) does not play out until the person is dead though. When it will (acording to the belief) affect what or whom the person will be reborn as.

          I do still agree that it is mostly a way to cope with an unjust world though, but a belief that should do more good than bad, however i can also see how it might encourage inaction towards bad actors; and ofcourse what constitutes a bad action is dependent on other morals that might be considered contridictory by others.