Maybe my tone was a bit harsh, but I really do have serious ethical and political issues with this sort of attitude.
If you carry that line of thought through, then it makes perfect sense to say "Because of how she behaved in her previous lives she gets to come back to this life as a girl living on a garbage dump outside Manila where she gets repeatedly gang-raped and beaten and robbed. What goes around comes around" or "I am happy, relatively wealthy, and it's all because of my virtues in my previous existences - what goes around comes around"
I think it is basically an uncritical self-applauding stance to take, one that ignores social and structural factors that lie beyond our control.I hear it a lot, and I just can't support it ever, no matter how much I care for the person expounding it.
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Date: 2008-03-27 09:15 pm (UTC)Maybe my tone was a bit harsh, but I really do have serious ethical and political issues with this sort of attitude.
If you carry that line of thought through, then it makes perfect sense to say "Because of how she behaved in her previous lives she gets to come back to this life as a girl living on a garbage dump outside Manila where she gets repeatedly gang-raped and beaten and robbed. What goes around comes around" or "I am happy, relatively wealthy, and it's all because of my virtues in my previous existences - what goes around comes around"
I think it is basically an uncritical self-applauding stance to take, one that ignores social and structural factors that lie beyond our control.I hear it a lot, and I just can't support it ever, no matter how much I care for the person expounding it.