Posted by chujoe on August 6, 2010, at 9:12:22
In reply to Re: Karma » Dr. Bob, posted by Dinah on August 6, 2010, at 7:08:54
I'm the one who brought up Karma & compassion because I think they make a more valid framework for interaction than civility and different grades of helpfulness. I agree with what Bob says above that the more compassion you spread around the more you're likely to have some splash back in your direction, but I think that's very unlike any sort of vending machine, exact or inexact. I'd go so far to say that expecting compassion in return for one's compassionate acts disqualifies the act as compassionate. Real compassion is unmotivated. And that's why the day that any sort of rating system appears on Psychobabble will be the last day I participate here. And please don't anyone take that as a threat or think that it means I don't like you, whatever your views on a rating system might be.
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