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Old 12-08-2006, 08:58 PM   #5 (permalink)
stephencp
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"Well, let's say it's morally wrong to kill someone. Therefore, the effect is that you'll have bad karma from it."

The "let's say" part is the problem. Is it alway wrong? Is it wrong for me to kill the terrorist about to blow up a bus load of school children? Would that get me good karma or bad?
There is a story about a Boddhisatva on a boat who killed a would-be robber that was about to kill a bunch of other people. He accepted a little bit of bad karma (assuming that it was bad) to prevent the would be robber/murderer from accumulating infinately more bad karma. It can get confusing huh?

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