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What Would it Be Like if the World Functioned According to the Principles of Karma?

Written by Dirk Jan on June 14, 2025. Photo by Yvonta. Created with a collaborative synthesis of artificial and human intelligence. Join Yvonta to support our work and enable us to keep creating meaningful content.

Imagine if the world were truly fair. That everything you do, good or bad, comes back to you in equal measure. You give a euro to a homeless person? A few days later you happen to find exactly that amount back in your account, as a reward. You laugh at someone in the schoolyard? A little later you trip over your own shoelaces and are mortified in front of a group of passers-by.

In such a world you know exactly where you stand. Everything is directly connected. There is no such thing as coincidence anymore. If you get hit by a car, you have earned it somehow. If you are given a dream house as a gift, you must have been a saint in a previous life. Everything is right, everything is explainable.

And the great thing is: everyone knows it. No one steals anymore, because the punishment comes immediately. No one cheats, because it immediately turns against you. People start doing their best to be good, out of self-protection. Because whoever does good, will receive good. Literally.

But… is that really so beautiful?

A world without chance, without mercy

It may sound like a dream, but in my eyes it is a nightmare. Because if everything that happens to you is ‘deserved’, then that also means that no one is helped just like that. Why would you support someone who is suffering? He must have caused it himself. Someone who is poor should have tried harder. A child who gets sick? Well, maybe he did something bad in a previous life.

It is a world in which compassion disappears. In which you no longer learn from mistakes, but are immediately punished. There is no room for growth, for misunderstandings, for bad luck. Only a hard, cold balance between action and reaction. Everyone lives with a constant fear: what if I do something wrong?

And above all: you never get a second chance.

What if it were different?

Let us imagine a different world. A world in which everyone has their own angel on their shoulder. Not as a judge, but as a friend. Someone who whispers softly what is wise to do. Who helps you to choose lovingly, but also comforts you when you fall.

In that world, accidents no longer happen, not because people are punished for their mistakes, but because people act out of love. Because they help each other. Not out of fear, but out of connection.

And if something does go wrong, we reach out to each other. Not to judge, but to repair. You are allowed to make mistakes, as long as you have the courage to face them. You don't get what you deserve, but what you need to become better.

Better forgiveness than retaliation

I don't believe that a perfect karma world brings us closer to the good. In fact, I think it hardens our hearts. Real progress does not start with punishment, but with forgiveness. Not with automatic consequences, but with human choices.

What if we all lived from the idea of ​​repair instead of punishment? What if we gave people chances to make it right? To take responsibility without immediately judging them?

Then space is created. For growth. For understanding. For real connection.

I hope that future becomes reality. Not a world of vengeful balance, but a world in which we lift each other up. In which we treat each other, animals, and the earth with love.

Not because we are afraid of punishment. But because we know: this is what it means to be human.