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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  Um... are you asking me to define some morals for you? Morals change depending on your personal belief system. To some people, murder is fine. To others, it's not. To the former set, assuming they believe in karma, they would further believe that they would get good karma from it. To the latter, again assuming belief in karma, would anticipate bad karma. |
And thus you should be able to determine the accuracy of your morals by observing the effect of your actions on your karma. If you tell a lie to protect a friend and then bad things randomly start happening to you, you can conclude that the lie outweighed the protection. If good things start happening, vice-versa. This can be explained in three different models:
Buddhist The lie created good/bad karma, resulting in good/bad events.
Atheist Subjective Realist You define your own good/bad, and the events following are a reflection of your beliefs on your actions. If, deep down, you believe that protecting your friend wasn't worth the lie, you'll use the Law of Attraction to manifest bad events. If you feel that it was worth it, you'll use the Law of Attraction to manifest good things.
Morman The gift of the Holy Ghost follows you around everywhere to give you continuous feedback on your actions. When the importance of protecting your friend outweighs your untruth, then you've told a "good" lie and God rewards you. When you tell a "bad" lie, God punishes you.
I'm sure there are other models to explain it, but those are the three that pop to my mind.
So if you fail to kill the terrorist and your life starts sucking, then it was the wrong thing to do. Karma is, among other things, a way to measure morality.