I'm a little doubtful about karma tbh. I know that if you act positively you'll both feel positively doing it and receive positive feedback and support from others. And if you act negative you'll feel negative and receive negative feedback. I understand that

But if you do something that is generally labeled as 'negative', but you yourself don't care much about it, and there is nobody who notices it, then i'm not so sure tbh. If you do things that society labels as 'bad', but you rationalize it being a good thing, and there's (hypothetically) 0% risk of anyone that will ever punish you for that. Will it ever get back to you mentally?

Example could be: I steal money from someone who is wealthy, but i rationalize that that extra money is important to me which i can support me and my family with and buy healthy food for them. And you never get caught, nobody will ever notice.

In that case, where is the drawback from that? Will some higher might every punish you? I highly doubt so.


A different case may be... When you do something that you know is labeled as 'bad', but you just don't really care about it. Like when you steal from someone, but you don't care about it. You don't feel bad doing it, but you also don't get gratification if you wouldn't do it. Again with a hypothetical 100% guarantee that you'll never get caught.

Will that make you a more negative person, will that affect your mind more negatively? Will it make you feel worse in the end? If you truly don't care, i don't think so.

I do think it's a different story though when it appears to you that you don't care, but that you somewhere feel like it's not right to do so.


What is actually the positive side to having self-respect? What is actually important about being a man of principles?

What do you gain from being nice, not cheating, not stealing, no lying and being honest? Why would you allow yourself to care about these principles while you don't have to care? Again, assuming you won't get punished by it by someone else.

I'm just curious.