Does a rule of reciprocity exist?

Question

For each of the feelings you may have for others (anger, jealousy, envy, fear, etc.) others also have those same feelings for you.

While you envy person X, person A also envies you.

I wasn't referring to specific individuals.

Just as you might love someone who doesn't love you, there are those who love you and you are not interested in them.

Answer 1

Nope.

You might want to kill a person badly whereas no one has the same feeling against you.

A more simple approach; you could have so much love to give, yet people around you could still hate you because they dont understand the way you think.

Answer 2

You're not talking about the type of reciprocity that happens between two individuals that are implied in the same relationship, as poles, right? In that case, the theory sounds reasonable.

The feelings you direct towards a person won't necessarily attract the same feelings from that individual. But I believe in the theory that if you direct certain emotions towards an individual, another individual who is part of your circle or simply an individual in the world (who has nothing to do with the person in your relationship) will direct those feelings towards you.

You're basically talking about the laws of karma, right? If we spread negativity, negativity doesn't necessarily come from the individual we target, but it comes from a totally different and detached source. It's the law that balances the energies in the world. I believe that everything we do is a form of energy, so actions and emotions that we express are sent as a form of energy in the universe. Once we express them, the process is triggered and the universe sends its response through karma.

It's just like manipulating a computer. The drive is the world and CDs are our contribution in the world. Once we insert the CD in the drive, we are presented with the information on the CD. The information represents the boomerang effect. What we insert is later presented to us in the exact same form...

Answer 3

Reciprocity is not a rule. It is a line in a sometimes featureless landscape.

The Bible has a verse saying an eye for an eye. But this is deprecated in the New Testament and many places in the Old Testament. Would a parent say to a daughter who's son has poked her eye, "Daughter go poke out the eye of your brother."

Any fool can see that two lost eyes is a greater loss then one. Ganhi said, "An eye for an eye and the whole world is blind."

Answer 4

Theoretically, they say it is so. Practically-----, u love some, someone else loves u. U hate none, so many hate u. U are considerate, rarely is anybody considerate towards u. So there is no rule, no exact and equal reaction to ur action.

There is no law in this world, only mathematics of probability.

BUT one thing I have experienced, +ve feelings generate a positivity from within and keep a person happy, this equal reaction comes from within not from outside.

Answer 5

I think it does exist. What I mean to say is that I hate some people and I know some people who hate me, I like some people and I - surprisingly - know some people who like me. I envy people and know at least one who envies me.... It's a huge connection of people; and an odd one too now that I've come to think about it.

Answer 6

Emotional reciprocity across individuals? Not a rule, no. Somebody loved me but I didn't love that person. Another person loved me, but I didn't feel the same. I was angry with somebody the other day, but that person wasn't.

There is a more universal principle called compensation. But it is a lot different than what you asked about. It has to do with cause and effect, vibration, and rhythm.

Answer 7

What we intend toward others, and what we perceive they intend toward us is established strictly individually. I believe most people subscribe to the do unto others thing, but I find that more and more it's becoming harder to find other folk who recognize or believe any rule of reciprocity. So while it still exists I gather that it isn't practice as much as before...

Answer 8

there are a lot of unrequited emotions, not all feelings are reflected back, a person could be contempt in torturing while the tortured are full of fear and despair. most feelings are equally matched with another

Answer 9

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

What goes around comes around.

He who sit on tack, better off.

Answer 10

Very simple in its complexity but everything is.