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Maru Kitteh

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14. It would seem Karma is a self-soothing fantasy, and an oftentimes cruel one at that.

Reply to benld74 (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 8, 2017, 04:54 PM

Jan 2017

Otherwise there would be little need of any justice system at all.

Where is the innocent girl's "Karma?"

We have laws and penalties that are, ostensibly at least, based upon reason. We arrived upon this system shortly after the formation of societies because for some reason "the gods" never got around to punishing people who violated norms, so we took it into our own Earthly hands.

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