if some of you dont know what karma is. it is from a buddhist religion referring to a universal law that everything a person does has bad consequence to the doer. this karma concept is embraced by christians as well. throughout the long history of humanity in wars and conquests rape was a part of it. muslims and europeans invaded other countries and raped their women, in world war 2 this happened with japan invading china and raping their women. recent ones which come to mind are iraq invasion where american forces raped iraqi women. judaism and islam officially sanction rape in wars.
what karma would the nations and religions which have committed these crimes suffer because they seem to be doing well, muslim nations have become well off and european and america has become only richer after iraq invasion.
in the long history of humanity when did rape came to be considered a crime?
karma (
noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine their fate in this life and the next incarnation.
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could ascribe the philosophy of karma to an amalgamation of many smaller conditional parts as determinate conditions for the truth or efficacy of the whole concept. Personal responsibility, conscience, fear of consequence, adherence to social and cultural norms and/or taboos, aptitude for self-justification and heat of the moment extreme emotion all count certainly as conditional parts of the karmic concept from point of view of the
actor or doer.
"What comes around goes around", while often true in the sense or context of "look hard enough you will find it", is also a matter of playing the percentages. How many times can one get away with a given crime? Why should one commit said crime in the first place. And if one commits the crime why then should one expect to get away with it without consequence? Karma, in its most strict ideological adherence, seems to be both an internal and external "force"--almost a self-fulfilling prophecy if one believes hard enough it the "cosmic" wheel of justice.
But what then about good karma? Does no good deed go unpunished? There's just no gratitude in the world? If good karma is reward for good deeds could its expectation not lend itself to a predisposition for doing good only to "earn" good in return? Where doing bad with full belief in karmic bad as result seems like defiance of one's own thought process.
If karma exists it almost certainly cannot be a collective force and must certainly be a force acting on the individual life. Rape as a weapon of war in ancient times happened because soldiers obeyed their commander's orders and sought personal vengeance or satisfaction in the extreme heat of war. If rape ever happened as a national policy, it was certainly a policy capable of bringing down the government who enacted and enforced it. Men who raped in war certainly payed a karmic price in anguish (if good men they ever were) once the fog and intensity of battle began to wear off.
Rape, in my opinion, has always been a grievous crime against the person from the rape victim's point of view. Do you believe any other view but the victim's counts in the dark light of being physically assaulted? What is difficult to discern from your post is whether or not you are submitting that rape is the fault of the victim as some form of karmic backlash for defiance of the men in their lives, and a comparison between that and the karmic backlash owed to perpetrators of rape, collectively, individually and perhaps as some bygone policy? If such is the case I can only assure you that here, in modern day America, rape is never excused as the victim's fault--at least never as official criminal code state or federal.
Personally, I believe it is equal in amorality to murder.