Does Karma really happen to bad people?

Question

Give examples please.
The Bad people seem to get away with it.

Answer 1

Bad people only *seem* to get away with things. Take a guy who robs a store with his 2 buddies. They get away with the money and kill the store owner. Later on, one "buddy" argues over his share of the money and kills his mate, who also participated in the original theft and murder. One down. The killer is forced to go on the run and his third buddy is honor-bound to cover for him. They steal a car and run to the next state, but their money runs out en route. They commit another crime to get more money; this time the convenience store clerk is ready and shoots one of them, wounding him, while the other runs off. The one who is shot rats out his buddy to lower his jailtime. The third guy is tracked down, both go to jail. The third guy arranges with his NEW jailhouse buddies to have the ratting out ex-buddy shanked in prison. Two down. Now the third guy is beholden to some even more scary guys, and his next misstep could be his last. It is only a matter of time...

How's that for an off-the-cuff example of how karma works? I made all of that up, but it seems a possible scenario for three people who started out with a plan to make easy money and ended up paying for it in ways they never imagined.

Answer 2

The bad people may "seem to get away with it" but if it doesn't catch up with them in this life, it will in the next.

Karma is generally associated with the doctrine of reincarnation.

Problems, blessings, wealth, social position, health or any other circumstances that a person encounters in this life are a result of actions taken in one of their previous lives. If a person is REALLY bad, it may take more than one lifetime to work off the "payback." While you are working off the payback from previous lives, you are also adding good and bad karma by the actions that you take in the current lifetime.

To the best of my knowledge, good and bad karma do not "cancel each other out" each adds to the pleasures and difficulties that must be worked off in future incarnations.

Most Christian denominations do not believe in reincarnation but karma is a definite element in some of the basic faiths. Although they may not come straight out and say it, that's what purgatory is all about in Catholicism.
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Answer 3

Trust me, they don't really get away with anything, but before I begin... let's first understand that nobody is ever inherently "good", "bad" or anything else, it's illogical to evey say that.

The gang-banger eventually either winds up dead, or in a hospital screaming in pain as his gsw's are packed or treated, or yelping at the size of the needle that's going into his arm to do venipuncture (draw blood) or start an IV, the arrogant athlete who belittles your efforts usually winds up with an injury looking at things from a NEW perspective (that is: watching everybody else exercise while they're recovering from surgery), the person who uses harsh speech to hurt others usually get more of the same, or worse at the effects of their speech rebound rather fast...

So realize, whether they get it in this life or the "next" (rebirth) they'll reap the effects of their actions, and the result is ALWAYS bigger than the seed planted. So if you're seeing some result that doesn't appear any worse... it isn't the result from the karma sown earlier in THIS life, but likely something done in one of their previous lives.

Also, be warned... do NOT rejoice in the karmic results of those you consider as such, because it's bad karma for YOU to do so and rather arrogant and unkind.

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Answer 4

There really aren't any 'bad' people, only people who make 'bad' choices. And even then, it is only 'bad' if we think it so. I do believe in cosmic justice, karma, what ever you wish to label it. When we set ourselves apart from the whole, when we let Ego rule us, we disconnect from our source, which is 'goodness', and we then start to base our choices on the limited plain of what is good for me rather than what would be best for the many....if you stay on this road too long ,then your problems mount and it appears that karma is out to get you....but what is dragging you down, is really, just your own self-defeating ways.

Answer 5

Nobody is free from karma, good or bad, good people of bad people.
For example: a criminal commits a murder, and is not arrested yet, but as soon he is found by police, he will be punished. Is just matter of time.

Answer 6

Bad Karma happens to bad people. Karma happens to everyone.

Answer 7

They usually get it in their next life, if not this one. There has to be a balance, and all actions need to be accounted for.

This is a story I remember hearing, of course the offenses aren't as bad as perhaps one would assume nowadays, but for Hindus it's pretty bad. There was a woman who accidentally killed and ate the flesh of a calf, and lied to her husband about it. In her next life, she was born as a beggar, blind and suffering from a host of ailments. She only earned redemption from those actions by the unconscious worship of Lord Shiva with betel leaves.

Answer 8

By karma do you mean, what goes round comes round?

If that is what is meant, there is something in the Bible that would sort of substantiate that.

Eccl 11:1 Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.
If you cast bad bread, it comes back.
If you cast good bread it comes back.

Answer 9

there are some examples of karma in a page of karma in here.
http://www.11meditation.co.nr

I have a plan to translate more examples but after I am done with vipassana page.

Answer 10

I don't believe in Karma. I've never really seen any sense of divine or cosmos justice when it comes to who lives and who dies or who fails and who prospers. I find circumstance to be much more influential than karma, justice or anything of the like.