--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> new wrote:
> > That a ball bounces back off a wall does not
> > necessitate gods nor morality. Do this, get
> > that result.
> >
> There's no doubt that the laws of 'karma' indicate
> cause and effect. But, the question is, does 'karma'
> operate on the level of moral reciprocity? If the
> universe is material, based on pure mechanics,
> then there's no reason to posit a moral factor.
>
> If 'karma' indicated that there is a moral to cause
> and effect, then we would expect to see people
> who do good things get rewarded with good things,
> and those that do bad things, should be getting
> bad things.
>
> In the real world we do see that cause and effect
> operate according to the laws of 'karma', or due
> to cause and effect, however, in the real world we
> do not see 'karma' operating as moral reciprocity:
> sometimes bad people do bad things and are rewarded
> with good things.
>
But maybe not in the long run ;-)
