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Topic: Karma has no menu, you get what you deserve.

Turncoat said:

Spatial Mind said:

 Karma = The result of one's doing.

I'd say it's closer to the carryover of one's doing. Results can fade, but karma is the stink that follows the deed.

Turncoat said:

Billy said:

i think of karma as not some magical bullshit but as a result of how you treat people. this has nothing to do with magic. so karma is really just a meme.



negative karma will come back to get you because people will fuck you over just like you fucked them over

nothing to do with magic, everything to do with human nature

 

My perspective on it's similar, but closer to other people on average being half-decent people readers.

If you spent your life being a thief for instance, comforts and habits fitting of a thief will surface, "The Karma of a Thief". Anyone with the eyes for those sets of traits will smell said thief's "karma" from miles away, and therefor be harder to steal from. Someone who is innocent in that area meanwhile may have less skill for stealing, but when socially analyzed they'd only give it away at most from a bad poker face.

Karma to me is just what you telegraph based on your comfort zones with behaviors. It's why someone who tries to be "a good and respectable person" can stink of the efforts of responsibility even to people who've never seen them do any good deeds personally.

Of course with this version of Karma, you can be shat on for being a good person too. Walk through an alley of scammers and cutthroats and they'll smell the karma of naivete, making it more about blending in and not standing out through one's comforts in the familiar. 

Turncoat said:

TPG said:

 what happened to stalin getting karma

Wealth and power can circumvent most social issues, and things like media and charisma can spin the appearance of one's karma. People'd still potentially get a read on them if they met them (if they aren't distracted by the above), but what could the average person even do about it? What would some poor farmer seeing Stalin as a terrible guy is even accomplish? It'd only mean something if his power and wealth were ripped from him, maybe. 

Karma is a human force, and anything human can be worked around. It is a thing that can be both flexed and twisted, because it isn't mystical, but instead based around familiarity appearances within demographic labels through stuff like aesthetic, tendencies, and body language. This is why a Con Artist can fake his karma, although even that tends to leave signs people familiar with the tendencies may notice.