Karma Explained Through Reasoning

Some say that karma does not exist and that they have never seen it in action. There is no real evidence for or against it that can easily be proven, probably because no one has ever actually made a good study. Anyway, here are some arguments.

Say that karma doesn't exist. However, there is such a thing as actions having consequences. And if there is anything history teaches us, it is that at a fundamental level, regardless of the external factors, human nature has not changed much, if at all. Therefore, you use, misuse, and abuse other human beings at your peril. Why do I say this? Well, have you heard of the little misfit from Corsica who had a bit of a complex about his height? That guy called Napoleon? Or the nation called Germany that was forced into poverty because of World War I without any kind of recourse? There are many other examples. In fact, Israel is a good example culturally (but I don't know what its military does and can't judge if it is "spooky" on that front) of a place where refugees came from the Holocaust and assorted discrimination, and proceeded to stay alive against all odds despite all of the nations around the place attempting to wipe it out of existence. I have said that Israel's culture is a bit like a nation of honey badgers on crack. Now extrapolate that to the good people in the US having to deal with antimaskers/vaxxers and losing their patience, and then extrapolate that to the entire world's shock and anger at Russia's ill-conceived notion to try and munch on Ukraine during a worldwide pandemic. Human nature being what it is, there will be a reaction. And on an individual scale I can tell you that those people I know who have been through hell and back are terrifying, and you do not want to cross them. The worse you treat your enemy, the worse they become as an enemy. Nature takes her course. Better not to play that game.
It's been my experience that there is only so much a human being, or any creature really, can take before it snaps. The more of them you give them "stuff to take," the greater the statistical likelihood that one of them will. And usually this "stuff to take" is whatever a group ("society," social norms in an area) thinks is in the own best interest of human beings or creatures, not realizing that to interfere with how human beings and critters naturally are, or otherwise interfering with nature (if you want to get all religious and say there are no rules like that in Heaven, perhaps you'd better re-read your sacred text to determine if your religion actually has laws of your Deity or Deities in said Heaven and on Earth), you're playing with fire. One good example of this is a very puritanical place I used to live at in which "nothing bad ever happened," on the surface, a repressive hellhole that functioned like a bad combination of jail, mental hospital, and house of worship, which drove everyone so bonkers that pretty much everyone was committing crimes, without being noticed. Or worse, with being noticed but everyone just let it slide. Karma in a place like this? Well, you get it just from living there and partaking of and participating in the madness. You get what you pay for!
Experience will dictate that if you continue to be an asshole throughout your life, you tend to lose supporters. Eventually there is a breaking point, either from having people leave you, or from having people work so hard to keep you going that they just can't anymore. This same idea has been supported through many examples throughout history.
Some people at a fundamental level are incapable of being happy when they hurt another living creature deliberately. Some people, however, are more than capable. These are sociopathic sadists and many of them work in mental health disciplines, politics, or some other field where they get to power trip and abuse others. Such people are often happy no matter what external circumstances are. Here's how they earn their karma: they have no real friends. Animals and other living creatures tend to avoid them, or attack them on instinct. And they usually have no one that loves them. Usually, they have to "go it alone" without support in anything that they need help with, and since human beings are not very capable of solo survival, this doesn't usually go well. Unless they're obscenely rich, which is why it's important to disallow obscene wealth. Since sociopathic sadists are usually quite adept at manipulation and winning popularity contests, however, it is also equally important to be extremely suspicious of the obscenely popular. Practically speaking we need to also create systems of government that do not promote letting these people have obscene amounts of power.
Discarding the social codes of conduct mankind has created in favor of the law of the jungle will give you exactly what you asked for: survival of the fittest. Adapt or die, kill or be killed, and there is always a bigger fish than you. The fatal flaw in sociopathic thinking is very often egotistic blindness. If anyone ever decides to keep being sociopathic but also retain humility, that's pretty much most of the human race anyway, and they're not special - they're in a fish tank with a lot of other piranhas like them, and that's usually not enjoyable when you're trying to be at the top.
Evil and sociopathy and all kinds of other similar mindsets are decidedly the opposite of inner contentment and peace. With those, you can strive and strive and strive for what you want, and if you get it you're happy for two seconds before you want more. If you don't get it, misery is yours. On the other hand striving for inner contentment and peace means you can achieve happiness in any circumstances and who wouldn't want that?
I have met thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands, of people who have regretted their actions and wished they could do anything to take them back. I have met precious few that have been for the most part content with what they had done up til now. What you may miss in external consequences you may more than make up for with regret. Time only flows in one direction.
Speaking as a good Witch, almost all of the other good Witches and even other people I have spoken to seriously about their past lives have said "I was a terrible person." Their shame was palpable. And frankly I am in the same boat, I messed up. I balanced my karmic slate since, in fact before I was even born in this life, and it was not fun. It is not pleasant to look back at what you've done and cringe. Especially not when you've been on the receiving end of what you originally did, and then saw how it felt. Or if you have my specific problem of being too hard on yourself and then failing to avoid hurting yourself, which is just as bad as harming some other poor schmuck. To be extremely blunt as usual, I don't have the luxury of not believing in karma. I just hope you take this as inspiration to not make my mistakes.

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