Talk your way out of altruism with this circular theory
The starving, impoverished people we see today were all fantastically rich exploiters of the poor in past lives, and are poor in this life as a karmic punishment. To attempt to aid the poor is interfering with metaphysical justice, and will justly lead to the soul-crushing poverty of the altruists in future lives.
Only problem: then aren’t rich exploiters of the poor doing a service by punishing those who were rich exploiters of the poor in past lives, and thus deserve to be rewarded in the next life by being rich yet again?
6 years ago