Many people believe karma to be a black and white concept. If you do good, you are rewarded; if you do bad, you are punished. However, there is a gray area not limited by that way of thinking. Karma is indefinite. There are no fixed outcomes for one's actions. Students get away with cheating on tests, con artists get away with swindling people's money, and that caring neighbor, who never sinned once in his life, is filing for bankruptcy because of business problems. I feel that the video shows mixed feelings about karma.
The creator of the video seems to wants to believe in karma, but feels that karma is nonexistent at times. The guy who gets hit by a car after robbing someone shows that karma exists. On the other hand, the guy who gets away after beating up another guy shows that karma does not exist. The girl who won the scratch card and the guy with the crazy girlfriend both lay in the gray area. Why should that one girl win a game of chance over thousands of others who are morally good and decide to play as well? Why should that one guy get shot for overreacting to anger, when his family might be more accustomed to violence? These questions cannot be answered simply with karma. In the end of the video, I feel that the main character is trying to get the message across that one cannot
predict karma.
Furthermore, the whole concept of good and bad is a socialistic issue. People who think themselves as good people are just following what their society deems as "good."
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