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In other words, the fetishist was run over by his karma.

In Reply to: won't cut the mustard posted by Nikhil Jaikumar on November 23, 1999 at 16:36:58:

: : The "crush fetishist" set himself up. I sincerely doubt that even the most deeply religious person feels much of a need to invoke divine justice when exceptionally stupid people do exceptionally stupid things and end up getting themselves killed. Stupidity is a selective disadvantage, IMHO. If you let somebody drive a car over you, you kind of have to expect to get squashed, but Newtonian physics explains why the car crushed him better than any biblical passage (unless there's something in the bible about abject stupidity that I missed! ;-) Sometimes natural selection weeds out the very dumb, despite the safety warnings we've put all over everything. I only hope he didn't reproduce first and pass on the stupid genes to the next generation!
: : -Floyd

: I,m sorry., but IMHO that explanation won't cut the mustard. Lots of bad and/or stupid people never have 'bad luck' of this magnitude. Why this guy, why was he punished for hsi cruelty, and why in this particular way? I understand that teleogical explanations are generally out of place in trying to explain nature, but it seems to me that they have value in explaining human actions and history.

: MDG, you'd probably interested to hear a Hindu legend that is sort of reminescent of this, about a spiritually advanced and enlightened sage who was nevertheless tortured (but not killed0 by being impaled on stakes, for something that was not hsi own doing. God later explained to teh amn that his impalement was the necessary outcoem of the amusement he'd taken in childhood from impaling small insects on pins.

Works for me. I'd like to think that some way or another, justice is eventually meted out in this universe.

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