monsterous humans vs. karma

from a comment thread related to cursing, someone suggested moral superiority is to be found in acknowledging karma makes all cursing wrong, because, i presume, we are all connected and karma is the receipt of evil from another. my response follows:

i understand what you’re talking about, but i don’t think you have processed it enough. Run it through to its logical end, think it through as if what you believed about karma were true, compare it to the evidence of your eyes, and consider whether you see it’s hocus pocus bogus bogus.

True because you imagine it so, but in real life bad shit happens to good people anyway, and bad people have good times.

There is no justice. There is only favor, this is the lesson of ares and helios and hermes and zeus. Everyone is innocent and just in their own eyes, even liars think they should get away with it.

Humans are the creations of monsters, the children of gaia, with the spark of eternity in our cells. We are the hands of fate. Through our choices the “will of zeus” is made to manifest, in harmony with itself. No part inflicts pain without suffering.

But not all manifestations of life get to live, and it is other forms of life that decide, banding together, or with brute force oppression.

That is the law of the earth.

Karma keeps people relying on false hope. You cut out cancer, you remove evil incarnations of the All-thing as you see fit.

Evidence based choices are the best we got. We don’t have to eat each other, but people are going to eat people metaphorically regardless.

Which frees us to be the best we can be if we want, for our own sake. To build our own garden, as it were.

And weeding the garden to make it look how we like it, without wolves and jackals.