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Why would you get bad Karma from doing something that is right?Could you please expand on this? My understanding was that karma only really influences what you are born as (and maybe your potential and whatnot, but not a concrete life plan), and that killing someone absolutely does build negative karma (if you are sane and committing it of your own free will).
For Karma to actually work as a societal replacement for proper laws, it requires everyone to have the same set of foundational values by which they operate.
If the entire cultural norm is to take advantage of everyone, especially those you perceive as lesser, then they will get positive Karma from doing the things we perceive as wrong.
All religious "afterlife consequences" systems only work if you have an actual set of laws everyone follows, which applies to everyone equally.
Otherwise the low cast people cannot fight back in any way, since they are always considered in the wrong, because they are low cast people.