&gt; Can karma, sometimes, be unfair?<p>I often say, &quot;Karma is real. It just has horrible aim.&quot;<p>What I mean by &quot;Karma is real&quot; is that it is not some mystical gobbledygook, but a real a phenomenon as natural selection or the free market&#x27;s invisible hand.<p>But most people discount karma because so often, as the line in the poem suggests, &quot;bad&quot; people seem to often get away with it and the &quot;good&quot; people often pay.<p>But if you consider that individuals aren&#x27;t entirely responsible for who they are and what they do, that people are born into arbitrary places in a complex system (society), and how this has a huge impact on how they perceive the world and the choices they have, both perceived and real, then karma&#x27;s &quot;shoddy aim&quot; may in fact be as accurate as it should be.<p>For example, we have social inequalities that result in many children having far rougher and insecure lives than others. Instead of fixing these inequalities, and giving all children an equally good childhood, we use violence including forced incarceration to contain the delinquents the unlucky children are more likely to grow up to be. The karma of all this violence should rightly fall on all of us. If anything it doesn&#x27;t fall on all of us enough.