It's not a trick question.
Most people would feel more sympathy for the Y, the innocent
person. If someone goes to jail for murdering in cold blood, you
would feel very little sympathy. However, if the same person goes
to jail because he was wrongly accused of murder, you would be more
sympathetic.
The perception of "moral responsibility" is important in helping
us decide whether to assign blame and accord sympathy.
Buddhism teaches us that everything bad that happens to us is
due to karma, and is ultimately due to our wrong-doing. i.e. if we
suffer, it's our own fault.
Determinism tells us that free will is an illusion, and that we
have no control over the things that happen to us -- both good and
bad. i.e. if we suffer, we are a victim of circumstance.
This is my argument for saying that determinism -- which most
scientists believe -- results in a more compassionate society. This
is also the position that Buffett takes, from what I've read.
confuse for a moment, i though Determinism is
fatalism.
causal law sound very buddhism "cause and effect" to me.
we are not into fatalism, or that there's no ability in
changing things now. i think u are bit confuse in the
understanding of buddhism. things happened without a cause,
Indeterminism, is not right to us too.
The
concept that
karma determines the “person’s destiny,” as written in the first
and second definitions, gives rise to the idea that karma is
fatalism or determinism: do good, and good things will happen to
you, do bad, and bad things will follow. This is a highly
simplistic view of karma and ultimately not very accurate, for as
we know, bad things happen to good people, and vice versa. The idea
that we do actions and create effects is also a bit of a
misunderstanding: when, for example, are you ever going to have the
opportunity to start from a blank slate from which your actions
will now have effect your future life?
Life is constantly effect, one after another. It may be more
accurate to say that Karma is actually the “law
of effect
and cause,”
since we will never make a decision independent
of effects that have already been put in motion.
Read more: http://socyberty.com/spirituality/understanding-karma/#ixzz1i1HiJFMZ
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