Karma is bullshit cope for the powerless. The most successful men in history have often been the cruelest and most evil. Julius Ceaser’s karma for brutalising the Gauls and waging war on his own people was a decade of absolute power. Stalin and Mao both died peacefully in old age despite the 10s of millions of souls they sent to the grave. Karma is not real and life is not fair.
Caesar was murdered. Stalin was murdered.
I'm convinced there is far less karmic consequences for people who convince others to do their evil for them than those who actual pull the trigger.
Casper was murdered in his 50s after a decade of absolute power. Caesar chopped the hands off 200,000 Gauls so they would slowly starve to death. I know the rumours about Stalin’s end but even if they did finish him off he was at death’s door anyway so he lived a full life. As did the likes of Pol Pot, albeit out in the jungle. The only karmic consequences that exist are those caused by someone’s own guilty conscience; we have an entire history that shows those who don’t give a fuck rarely suffer what might be considered the rightful consequences of evil actions.
>2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
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