Please don't say karma

[Hortensis]

21. If karma brought malefactors our just rewards,

though, just imagine how much better we'd all behave. We'd be far more afraid to be hurtful toward others, and we and our societies would be very different.

One thoughtful, cool-eyed glance around at what happens to the players in each of our lives, though, should be enough to dispel this wishful and hypocritical notion.

Hypocritical because it provides excuses for passivity in the face of evil and acceptance of what should never be accepted.