Do you believe that evil doers suffer the consequences of their actions.

[ohiosmith]

Personally, every rotten thing I ever did has come back to haunt me. I now try to be the best person I can as I no longer want to pay the dues for bad deeds.

[VelmaD]

1. I don't think you have to be evil...

to suffer the consequences of your actions.

[supernova]

2. Yes, evil begets evil

just as good begets good.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Yes -- in a statistical way

There are the odd people able to commit "perfect crimes" here and there, but behaving in an antisocial manner makes your life suck most of the time.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. I don't know. I sometimes wonder if that isn't propaganda

sold to the working class to make them feel better about robber barons and those wealthy enough to escape justice.

[blindpig]

17. bingo!

same with the heaven/hell pony show.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Tough one.

Let's just say that karma isn't equally distributed.

[VelmaD]

6. You have to take the long view I suppose...

Just because they don't appear to be getting the karma we think they deserve in this life doesn't mean that they won't get it eventually.

[SCDem]

5. In the end yes.... but for some sweet justice takes a long time

[SarahB]

10. Exactly

:thumbsup:

[riverwalker]

7. Cheney's Karma

When I think of all the blood on Cheney's hands, all the misery of the dead soldiers, their families, the dead and wounded civilians, I don't want to be around when his Karma kicks in. I can't even think of anything bad enough. Even reincarnating as a wood tick for his next 40 lifetimes would be too benevolent.

[grannylib]

8. I believe people do suffer the consequences; I think those who suffer them

in this life will be better off in the next; those who benefit from evil in this life will surely pay in the next.

Maybe the opiate of the masses, but it gets me through the day.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. There's something about this "many lives accounting" that bothers me

So we see a human being (or animal) who has done nothing wrong suffer horribly. Are we to assume this is payback for evil commited in a past life and stop being sorry for them?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

12. Is time linear?

Who's to say that we aren't suffering for actions that haven't yet taken place?

[ohiosmith]

20. I hope to hell that I'm not paying for stuff I did in a past life.

[Van Helsing]

13. Nope.

There's a lot of evil people who don't get caught.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. See post #9 (nt)

[ZenLefty]

14. Yeah, I call it Karma

Unfortunately, the evil doer is not the only one who suffers the consequences of their actions; everyone suffers. That's what's so bad about making bad Karma.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

16. It's comforting to think so

But I can think of as many instances when people who did wrong didn't suffer as when they did.

[Champ]

18. I don't know about Evil-DOers

But evil DUers get away with everything. }(

[gpandas]

19. reality

google james randi