Sharon Stone comments on China and Karma
May 28th, 2008 Posted in NewsDid you catch wind of this? On the UK Telegraph website, Sharon Stone was reported as stating that China may have had the recent Earthquakes due to Karma- as a result of their treatment of the Tibetan people.
Wow. She must be an expert on Karma. Sounds plausible to me. Yep, do bad things, bad things happen to you. Karma. China has done bad things, therefore bad things are happening to them. Rock solid logic. She’s a clever woman, and apparently she’s good friends with the Dalai Lama, so she knows a few things about spirituality.
Hang on… What about America? In the same article, Ms. Stone is reported as complaining that the deaths of Iraqi’s are ignored while the number of US soldiers that died in the current struggle in Middle East is a constant focus on US News- but where’s America’s bad karma?
Sure, that’s a simple retort, Greg, but let’s go deeper. So… Ms. Stone thinks that the actions of a country karmically represents the actions of it’s people. Not a huge stretch of the imagination, I guess- the government makes (arguably) bad decisions as a whole, therefore the country must suffer as a result. Brilliant. But doesn’t that mean that karma at an individual level is non-existent? Why bother worrying about karma? Your country is gonna do something stupid and you’re gonna end up in some terrible natural disaster. Do as you will and be at the whim of the universe and its wacky decisions.
Personally, I like the idea of karma. Good things happen to good people and so on and so forth. But I don’t like the idea that a whole lot of probably very good people died because their country did a naughty thing. That’s just lazy bandwagon-jumping, in my opinion. You can’t connect every China-related story to your opinions of their treatment of Tibet. In fact, such a suggestion could even be taken as proposing that they deserved it. And that’s poor form.
