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Originally Posted by Markus74

So if the child is but a physical shell and its soul is way more ancient, then why pity the little child getting raped?

Because we share a connection to greater consciousness with the child, we can feel pity for the ego of the child; the experience is traumatic. We feel a desire to help the child, perhaps, because we want to help the child learn whatever they were supposed to from this experience; to prevent it from having to be experienced by any other children.

So why consider a rape or murder something bad if it can lead to enlightment? And why punish the rapist or murderer then, who only helped that soul on its way to enlightment?

Raping and murdering do not lead to enlightenment. Engaging in either of those activities would be moving in the opposite direction.

We punish these activities because they are not acceptable to our society. Even if we were to say the child "asked" for this experience, the punishments would still exist. The reason for the punishment on a metaphysical level is that the murderer/rapist is acting in ways that are understood to be against the greater good of all and in order to move humans as a whole towards enlightenment, we must not allow them to engage in those actions.

So, in fact you don't matter. Maybe you put for desires at the right moment, maybe not. Which comes down to luck or chance again. Since YOU're unable to decide when something should happen.

One's ego does not matter, no. What is most successful is to align one's desires to the will of the greater consciousness. Once this is done, the results flow naturally.

It seems like luck or chance when that alignment is haphazard. The better one gets at creating that alignment, the less it seems like chance.

[added: Could you please answer this question too: "Did the child attract the rapist? Or did the rapist attract the child?"]

I'm unable to answer that question. A) It's completely hypothetical. There isn't a child or a rapist. They are constructs of our conversation. B) If we were to discuss a specific example, I would be unable to know the specifics of each participant's innermost thoughts.