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I've always really disliked the idea of reincarnation. The idea that a person can die fully, lose all their memories, all the things that make them themselves, but some ethereal pressence, their Soul or being or something similar, could persist and be forced into another being, who would then have to deal with the consequences of the previous person's actions without any memories of commiting any crimes or any real guilt whatsoever seems cosmically unfair. Why should, for all intents and purposes, a completely innocent creature have to suffer the consequences for what, from their perspective, a completely seperate person has done? Similarly, why should a complete blank slate get to reap the rewards for the good actions of, yet again, a completely different person? It just seems like a system that is build specifically to make people the worst versions of themselves, there is no point in doing good actions since you as a person won't be able to benefit, while there is no consequence for evil, since, for all purposes, someone else will suffer for your actions. On a societal level, it serves to blame the poor and downtrodden for not being "good enough" in a past life, while not doing anything to actually help them. Furthermore, it serves to slowly bring people down and further down in the good deed hierarchy, as the people with the ability to do the most good are the ones with the most power, which typically do not, while the people with the ability to do the least good are the poor and powerless. If one is born poor due to not being 'good enough', then shouldn't the poor have the greatest ability to do good? How is one meant to be charitable when one is need of charity themselves? It all just seems so very unfair. |