Lykeios wrote: Also, I'm not sure that the karmic system is that simple and oblique. I don't believe that everything that happens to one is considered a result of some karmic debt. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure there are many cases where suffering could actually be considered the means for the aggregation of good karma. The poor girl who is raped is the victim of someone else's polluted karma and for her suffering she gains powerful good karma. *shrug* Just my two cents on that one.
Note that I'm not arguing that actions have no benefits or ill benefits. I'm just arguing that these are benefits of utility and not of morality.
When I was reading this paragraph I thought of Piers Anthony and his Incarnations of Immortality series. The first seven books each focus on one of seven supernatural "offices" (Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil and Good) in a fictional reality and history parallel to ours.
They attempt to answer some of these questions and they are fun to read.
Jayden
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