Can a person accumulate good karma by being bad in certain situations?

Question

If by being bad one person makes another person good, is it true he helped that person? Would the "bad guy" accumulate good or bad karma in this circumstance?

This is not a question for people who don't believe in karma.

Answer 1

Karma is just cause and effect. We will eventually experience for ourselves what we cause another to experience from our actions. If we lie, then we will be lied to. If we steal, even to help another, we will be stolen from. If we abuse someone, even to protect someone else, we will experience abuse too. What we give out we get back. If we steal money to help a friend in need, we will have something stolen from us, probably because our thief is taking it to give it to someone too.
If we have to cause harm or distress to someone else in order to help another, we are deluding ourselves that the good deed will overide the bad deed. It won't.

Answer 2

Karma by definition is accrued by the actions of a person. If a person knowing gets into a situation where he/she knows another is about to do something wrong, it is still wrong on both persons. Knowledge of a wrong is bad regardless of who actually performs it. Aiding and assiting a felon makes u part of the crime. So it is with Karma.

Karma is best created by doing acts unconciously. Setting out to purposely do good is fine. But to automatically do it as a habit is far greater. Same applies to bad karma but in reverse. It is far worse to do something negative on purpose than to accidentally do it. Intentions are the key.

Answer 3

Let me answer with an old chinese tale (short version):

An old man had a son, and the son broke a leg.
The son said: "This must be bad karma!"
The father said to him: "Good karma, bad karma, who knows?"
Then the soldiers came to recruit young men to fight in the war, and the son was not taken away because of his leg.
The son said: "Wow, this must be good karma!"
The father just mumbled again: "Good karma, bad karma, who knows?"

My point is, karma is karma, no matter if you think its good or bad. It will always be a burden you must leave behind before achieving illumination. Even the Buddha had to leave his kingdom and renouce the crown and his own wife and son in order to become Buddha. Karma is karma, and it will always be a burden to your soul.

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Answer 4

In that case would the bad person be like a Karma Chameleon?

Answer 5

I call karma reaping what you've sown and i believe that you can be misunderstood to be bad at times when doing God's will, but i do not believe that any good thing can come from your wrong doings or that God would lead you into doing wrong. Following the scriptures and aligning the Gospel is imperitive, but then again, God works in mysterious ways.

Answer 6

well violence againse other humans would normaly be seen as a bad thing. but let us say that i am walking through a deserted parking lot and i see a person being attacked.

if i go to the aid of that person and have to use violence against the attacker to help them and guarantee my own safe retreat from the situation. then am i in the good or bad area.

what if i killl the attacker?

what if the attacker stops at my arrival but i decide to beat him sensless anyway , as payback or as a lesson to not attack people?

what if i simply shoot him form 100 feet away and do not bother with endangering myself?

i think that the situation makes the differance.

Answer 7

huh? ok, lets put it this way. If u do something to harm somebody in any way, it will be thrown back at you 3 times worse, that goes for anyone. Karma is a rule i always follow.

Answer 8

I believe good karma will be returned when you have the best intentions.

Answer 9

Define the situations......