The thread that goes against everything we want... *4 Reports* Simon

[Sherab]

Originally Posted by arcora

Hypothetically - If the Native Americans had won and wiped out the white man, would the world be better off today?

Now we're getting back into karma. Karma isn't about absolutes of right and wrong. It is about positive effect and negative effect.

It is the responsibility of the good to fight evil.

No, because that hypothetical "victory" would have been no different from the actual "victory" we have today: it would have been based on murder. So then are you implying that it is not okay to kill to preserve a culture? I think I would agree with you in that regard.

And on a microcosmic scale, isn't one human shooting another human in order to survive the same thing? You still end up with the same result: murder. And the same karmic consequences. So is it okay to arm ourselves with the intention of harming another before they harm us?