03-13-2012, 04:40 AM
(03-12-2012, 07:13 PM)zenmaster Wrote: It's not really a moot question. Society may be a sublogos, but it's playing by the same, extant rules underpinning all existence. The world is, of course, fair. That should be plain for anyone to see.
I don't understand why "The world is, of course, fair". It's really not as plain as you would put it. I can't imagine why anyone would call the situation fair, where a certain priviliged white man gets fed, clothed and guaranteed a good life merely because of the womb he was born from. While a black woman who has been working hard her entire life finds herself at the point where she can no longer afford to feed her kids. That is not just and thus not fair, do you not agree? And if that is not fair then the world by extention is not either.
It might very well be that a vague thing we call karma (And I trained with a karma doctor/psychic healer) allows for this to happen. But in the end that's just a cop out.. If someone close to you can't afford to feed her children, you pitch in. Karma can suck it in that case... I don't think we can say "it's fair because it's karma" just because the person starving to death happens to be someone we don't know..
Maybe it is karma that caused someone to be born in difficult situations. But it's the economy, the fact that we in the west want to buy cheap food, that is the pragmatic causal cause for hunger in this world. It is not caused by the person born in poverty. Nor is it caused by her karma. The poor do not cause poverty, it's the rich and powerfull that cause it...