Are there any differences in the strength of good and bad deeds done at different ages?
I mean, Western people do a lot of bad thinking.
It is good, competition, ego, etc., based on ignorance slash misguiding.
First, later in life, will we...
The strength of good and bad deeds done at different ages.
Yeah, but he's got something right above that.
Is he following on it?
Let me see.
First, later in life, will we really get a chance to see for ourselves with such technical things?
Because evil should be known, but not necessarily the technicals.
I don't quite get it.
But okay, let's talk about good and bad deeds done at different ages.
I mean, I think the classical question here would be, do bad deeds done by children have the same effect as bad deeds done by adults?
That's a good question.
I would be tempted to say, and it's just a me answer, it's not really from the sutta's answer, that children don't, I mean it makes sense, it's the answer that most people would naturally want to give,
children don't have the same karmic potential in their acts because their brains are not fully formed so for them to come up with a fully conscious volition to hurt or to steal or so on is not possible that their intentions are whimsical tend to be
You know, the strength of an act is often based on the premeditation of it.
If you really, really, really strongly intend to do something, then it has stronger karmic potential.
And it's harder for children to do that.
They just come up with things on whim.
It's harder for a child to plan a murder seven days in advance or even a day in advance.
But it's possible for a child to kill another child.
It could happen.
But they would just do it spontaneously.
So I would say in general...
There's a good likelihood.
And society tends to subscribe to this and history tends to attest to it.
It tends to be a common sense sort of thing where we accept the fact that children are not to be held as accountable for their deeds.
And I think the universe will attest to that.
Karma will attest to that.
Then with the coming of age or the advancing of age, intention becomes more prominent in our thinking with the younger age group.
Yeah, that's the point.
Premeditation, holding on to grudges and so on, so it can become very, very entrenched in the mind.
But kids can do horrible things and can be affected horribly by things.
I guess the problem for kids is that they're quite impressionable.
So if a child is... I wonder what you'd think of that.
If a child is raped versus an adult is raped...
which one would it affect stronger?
Because children don't have means of processing certain things, so they can be corrupted by acts one might think easier than adults.
Anyway, I don't know, kind of speculative.
Here's an interesting question.