Nonsense. There is no justice. There are no karmic scales. Sorry. But they don't exist.
You have a pile of good things and a pile of bad things, but one doesn't cancel out the other. Take the latest episode of Obi-wan. What happens? Reva hunts down Luke, goes to kill him, but then doesn't. NOW SHE IS GOOD.
Not killing someone isn't a good deed.
But people think it's supposed to "redeem" you. No. Sorry. You can't change the past. You still did what you did. Will beating yourself up change anything? No. Let's say you are arrested and judged in court. Guess what? That's for the good of society, not for "justice". Here's the crazy thing, you can just stop being evil and do good. You have that choice. You aren't forgiven or absolved of the crap you did, but you can become good just because you CHOOSE to be.
But You still need to deal with your past actions.
In Reva's case, she should still be tried for war crimes. She still chopped off someone's hand. You can become a good person, but still have to pay the price for your past actions.
Good things happen to bad people. Bad things happen to good people. This doesn't make you good because good things happen, and vice versa. Trust me. I know of babies that were raped by the step father because the mother wanted to film it to sell on line to make money to buy drugs. No. I shit you not. I have personally counseled the first responder who had to treat that child and it completely broke him.
I feel safe in saying that in this world, there is no justice. No karma. No fate. And this is a good thing. Why? Because I can balance the scales right now. I can make the world "fair" in one sentence
The baby had it coming.
People who want the world to be "fair" don't know what they are asking for. What most people want is the world to be UNFAIR, in their favor. They don't want the world to be fair. Holy shit, what a nightmare that would be. Imagine every crappy thing that every happened to you. In a fair world, it doesn't go away. You just DESERVED IT.
Did that 2 year old deserve to get raped and the video sold on line?
Society has a vested interest in punishing criminals, and socially punishing people who step outside acceptable boundries, but that isn't for the purpose of making things fair. It's for making society WORK. I want a world that is unfair. I want a world every everyone wins, even if they have not earned it. Even if they don't deserve to win.
How less would the pain be we inflict on each other if we all won?
In a "fair" world that will never happen. In a fair world not everyone can be winners. You can break the rules and everyone can win, even if they haven't "earned" it. If a fair world with "justice" well... sorry. If the world was ACTUALLY fair, I think most of you would discover that you are actually way ahead of where you should be.
Most of us are, actually. Just having a computer to type on puts us above 95% of the planet.
In Jennifer's case, she's just trying to make the world fair. That's it. In her mind, what she thinks is fair, she's trying to do. Which isnt what is fair. God help her if she actually had to live with TRUE karmic justice. I doubt any of us would like that world where no matter how hard we all try, we could only come out to a zero sum. Never positive, never negative, always breaking even and no matter how hard you try, or how little you try, you wind up at "fair".
Trust me. I've seen people who are in the negatives. Nobody, and I mean nobody, who has all their limbs intact and is typing on this forum knows what being in the negatives is. Most people are in the positives, to be honest. If we made the world fair, I shudder at the very thought of a truly equitable world.
The MC was a terrible person. There's no way to go back and fix that. Move forward and make the world a better place from this point forward.
And that bullshit about people are only nice because it benefits them. Fuckin' narcissistic bullshit. Yeah yeah yeah, theories of enlightened selfishness. Guess what? I help people because I want the world to be better than how I felt it. I don't get much out of it. I'd often get more by NOT helping others, but I do it anyways because I want to. Because I choose to. That's it. Trying to turn it into a "dark and edgy" thing where you go, "We're all selfish and evil we just pretend otherwise". Well, if we ALL DO IT, then it doesn't matter.
We all breathe air. So going on about how BREATHING is selfish is nonsense and makes the same amount of sense. Enjoying something good doesn't make it selfish. Enjoying something just means you ENJOY IT. I like this, I don't like that. That's not selfish, because part of it involves benefitting others.
To be selfish, I HAVE TO BE THE ONLY ONE GETTING SOMETHING OUT OF IT.
But that's what people want you to think. To make everything dark and twisted and warped instead of just seeing things for what they are.
And that's where Jennifer is at.
It was a previous fuckin' life. Like, HE DIED. What benefit is there to punishing him in THIS LIFE? SO he learns his leason? GUESS WHAT? HE DID! He's being a nice person an doing good deeds. The punishment she wishes to inflect WON'T SERVE ANY PURPOSE EXCEPT TO MAKE HER FEEL LIKE SHE'S VIRTUOUS .
This is just virtue signaling at it's worst. She is the selfish one in this case. She is the one harming others to make herself better while lying to herself that she is getting "Justice". For who? Who will feel better? How will this benefit society? What good will be accomplished in this case?
Now, if this was in the SAME lifetime, and the punishment would serve as a warning to others, sure. I can see that, but in this situation, it seems like the only one gaining anything from this Shit is Jennifer, because she is a self-centered egotistical bint.
Maybe there's more to it, but with the little information given, she's the selfish one, stopping someone from making the world a better place so she can pretend to be a good person. In this situation, she's evil. Plain and simple.
She's trying to make the world "fair" without knowing what that would actually look like. She just wants the world to be unfair, but arranged in the way she finds pleasing.
Jennifer is a monster.