Category:Karma
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"What goes around comes around"
Dynamics of Change
Cycles of action and reaction / Science points to laws of thermodynamics and we grasp, in an interconnected world, that for every action there is a reaction.
Consequences and Costs
Over the eons of human action, even in a biblical sense, individual/tribal/societal/national actions have 'begat' counteractions.
It is, as if, a 'calculus of war' opposes a 'physics of peace'.
Wage war and expect direct and continuing unexpected costs; wage peace and expect direct and unexpected benefits.
In a sense, this is a 'karmic' equation.
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Rarely are the costs of war considered as the drums of war beat.
Arthur Koestler: “The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums.”
"Blowback" and cycles of violence
http://www.thenation.com/article/blowback/
blow·back
ˈblōbak/
Noun
1. a process in which gases expand or travel in a direction opposite to the usual one, especially through escape of pressure or delayed combustion
2. US - the unintended adverse results of a political action or situation
In diplomatic terms, an unpredicted, negative response against a nation
See also Chalmers Johnson via the New America Foundation; "a counterpoint to triumphalism... costs and consequences..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVsfwXr9iAk
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also see: Revenge, Vendetta, Vengeance, Retaliation, Retribution, Payback
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"An Eye for an Eye" (found in Babylonian Law / Hammurabi, 1780 B.C. and Koran/Qurʾān and also Exodus and Leviticus -- עין תחת עין, ayin tachat ayin)
Leviticus: "As he has done, so it shall be done to him [namely,] fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he has injured a person, so it shall be done to him." (Lev. 24:19–21)
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"Revenge is a profound moral desire to keep faith with the dead, to honour their memory by taking up their cause where they left off"
-- Brandon Hamber and Richard A. Wilson, Symbolic Closure through Memory, Reparation and Revenge in Post-conflict Societies (Johannesburg: Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation)
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"Kindness begets kindness"; "Violence begets violence"