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Are there any differences in the strength of good and bad deeds done at different ages?

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I mean, Western people do a lot of bad thinking.

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It is good, competition, ego, etc., based on ignorance slash misguiding.

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First, later in life, will we...

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The strength of good and bad deeds done at different ages.

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Yeah, but he's got something right above that.

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Is he following on it?

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Let me see.

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First, later in life, will we really get a chance to see for ourselves with such technical things?

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Because evil should be known, but not necessarily the technicals.

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I don't quite get it.

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But okay, let's talk about good and bad deeds done at different ages.

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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?

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That's a good question.

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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,

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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

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You know, the strength of an act is often based on the premeditation of it.

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If you really, really, really strongly intend to do something, then it has stronger karmic potential.

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And it's harder for children to do that.

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They just come up with things on whim.

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It's harder for a child to plan a murder seven days in advance or even a day in advance.

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But it's possible for a child to kill another child.

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It could happen.

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But they would just do it spontaneously.

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So I would say in general...

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There's a good likelihood.

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And society tends to subscribe to this and history tends to attest to it.

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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.

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And I think the universe will attest to that.

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Karma will attest to that.

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Then with the coming of age or the advancing of age, intention becomes more prominent in our thinking with the younger age group.

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Yeah, that's the point.

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Premeditation, holding on to grudges and so on, so it can become very, very entrenched in the mind.

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But kids can do horrible things and can be affected horribly by things.

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I guess the problem for kids is that they're quite impressionable.

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So if a child is... I wonder what you'd think of that.

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If a child is raped versus an adult is raped...

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which one would it affect stronger?

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Because children don't have means of processing certain things, so they can be corrupted by acts one might think easier than adults.

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Anyway, I don't know, kind of speculative.

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Here's an interesting question.