karmic justice
Universe balances scales
Karmic justice is the idea that people's actions—good or bad—eventually return to them in kind.
The concept draws from karma, the Hindu and Buddhist principle that deeds shape future circumstances.
In casual use, it often describes satisfying comeuppance: The bully got hit by his own boomerang—karmic justice.
Unlike legal justice, karmic justice implies a cosmic or moral balancing that operates independently of human institutions.
- what goes aroundActions returning to sender
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- fatePredetermined course of events
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- comeuppanceDeserved punishment or rebuke
payback · reaping · sowing · eye for an eye · balance · cosmic balance · cosmic · revenge · deserved · moral debt · consequence · punishment · wheel · cycle · boomerang · nemesis · reckoning · divine
- karmacomeuppance, good deeds, what goes around comes around, divine retribution, what goes around
- retributionretribution, revenge, payback, vengeance, retaliation
- religious ethicsChristian ethics, divine command, moral law, divine law, love thy neighbor
- TarantinoPulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs, Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds
karmic justiceblind chance
dumb luck · innocent suffering · collateral damage · happenstance
karmic justiceimpunity
Freedom from consequences
injustice · getting away with it · unfair advantage · ill-gotten gains · unaccountability
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