--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Someone > who believed in a (IMO) false reading of karma as > determinism would never even *try* to come up with > technologies to ease the suffering of those born > with birth defects; they'd think somehow that the > kids "deserved" them.
FWIW, this is *by no means* a necessary consequence of a reading of karma as determinism. It's a "false reading" of what karma as determinism implies.