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**andrekuper** · 12-05-2010, 07:58 AM

If it gives her comfort, that's great, but not only is that no evidence that this phenomenon is actually literally happening, it's so easy for this to become really nasty victim-blaming. After all, if people's own sins caused their suffering, whose job is it to help them? If they deserved help, the theory seems to go, then they would have been virtuous enough to have not gotten sick in the first place.

I seriously dislike this "people get what they deserve, and deserve what they get" sort of metaphysical karma dogma. Totally unsupportable by evidence and culturally toxic on top of it.

12-05-2010, 07:58 AM	#4
andrekuper Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 496 Senior Member	If it gives her comfort, that's great, but not only is that no evidence that this phenomenon is actually literally happening, it's so easy for this to become really nasty victim-blaming. After all, if people's own sins caused their suffering, whose job is it to help them? If they deserved help, the theory seems to go, then they would have been virtuous enough to have not gotten sick in the first place. I seriously dislike this "people get what they deserve, and deserve what they get" sort of metaphysical karma dogma. Totally unsupportable by evidence and culturally toxic on top of it.
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