Do You Believe In Karma??

[-SharonA-]

Yes!!!!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13837562/lee-rigby-killer-fighting-for-life-covid/?utm_campaign=sunmainfacebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1611523997

[lankeela]

I'd have left him on a trolley in the corridor. Why waste valuable oxygen and our NHS resources on scum like this who do not deserve to live.

[Mozz71]

Lankeela, because we're not animals. He might be, but we're better.

[naomi24]

I’ve just realised I didn’t answer the question about karma. No, I don’t believe in karma. I’ve seen too many horrible people thrive. Furthermore, if karma did exist, a dose of Covid, however severe, wouldn’t cut it for this creature. It bears no comparison to the brutality of his horrendous crime.

Whether or not karma relates to a future life depends upon whether or not a future life exists …. and that can only be a matter of speculation.

[lankeela]

If whichever god he believes in exists then it would save him wouldn't it? No need for any treatment.

[Bobbisox1]

I think Karma is what an indiviual might feel at times but as long as you can put it aside (till it happens LOL )
As for the cretin in question, he has the chance of life which is more than Lee Rigby had, so maybe Karma is just a word :0}}

[Theland]

I hope he lives, and that word gets around the mosques that be is back in his cell, and staying there.

[Canary42]

The widespread vindictive rejoicing on this thread at the suffering of another person is a sad reflection of the state of the human race today.

[emmie]

no i don't believe in Karma, though i hope the bloke stays alive to suffer the agony of never coming out of jail.

[naomi24]

Highly commendable, Canary. You're all heart.

[emmie]

they didn't give Lee Rigby a chance - a truly horrendous crime.

[allenlondon]

Judge Humphreys, the well-known Buddhist, is frowned upon in some Buddhist quarters. When asked how he could justify passing the death sentence on some poor soul, he replied "It isn't me killing him; I'm simply a part of the judicial system."

Tricky thinking, of the sort more suited to a slippery politician than a Buddhist.

[andy-hughes]

Most often - and this is a perfect example - the notion of 'karma' is used when someone who has done something terrible, then has something terrible happen to them, and the natural human instinct to derive some level of satisfaction from this, is then labelled as 'karma'.

I am minded to echo rowanwitch's view - I dont want to wish him ill, because that diminishes me as an individual, and has no effect on him whatsoever, so I will do likewise and wish him nothing at all.

I do hope that, if he survives, he understands and appreciates that he does so by virtue of a society that is far more nurturing and caring for its people than the society he wishes the world to become - but that is highly unlikely.

[andy-hughes]

allen - // When asked how he could justify passing the death sentence on some poor soul, he replied "It isn't me killing him; I'm simply a part of the judicial system." //

As you point out - correctly in my view - that is slippery thinking.

I would suggest, that if Mr Humprheys was opposed to capital punishment, and we should assume that as a Buddhist he was, then he should have chosen either another branch of the law, or at the very least, absented himself from a role where he is required to become part of a system that allows capital punishment to be enacted.

To claim Buddhist principles is all well and good - but surely it is beholden on him then to walk the proverbial walk, rather than talking the proverbial talk - especially if that 'talk' is going to excuse his conflict of profession versus conscience in such a glib and frankly unsatisfactory fashion.

If I were a Buddhist, I would disapprove of him as well.

[Khandro]

Once again a load of ill-informed tosh from a.hughes

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - none taken!

[allenlondon]

Khandro. Usually I’d go along with that point of view without pausing, but in the case of Humphreys I’d find it hard to defend his position to another Buddhist.

Can you imagine Ghandi, for example, sentencing someone to death and then excusing himself in that way?

[andy-hughes]

Khandro - // Once again a load of ill-informed tosh from a.hughes //

Since this is a discussion - maybe you;d like to expand on what you see as the fault in my point, rather than harruphing from your corner like a dispetic old man in a decrepit pub.

[JimF]

I don't believe in Buddha.

[Khandro]

Ghandi wasn't a high court judge, (& he wasn't a Buddhist) If he had been in the 1950s and had before him a person who had been found guilty by a jury of first degree pre-meditated murder, he would have had no alternative but to do his duty on behalf of the country & it's laws other than pass the death sentence, no matter how much he may have found it personally objectionable.

Humphreys did his upmost during his time to have the law of the death penalty changed, which eventually came into being, but not until 1973.

[Mamyalynne]

Lee's Mum's view.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/13841476/lee-rigby-mum-no-justice-killer-covid/