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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by lawrence@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
 
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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 81 points 8 months ago (3 children)

You know they would do this, the day reincarnation was confirmed.

[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah, you gun down a few dozen people, death can't save you. Welcome to baby prison you dumb baby.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Depends on which karma system turned out to be right.

If Hinduism is correct, then you’d earn a lot of bad karma by committing crimes that would get you 3 life sentences, so your first lie sentence would be as a human obviously, but then your soul would get reincarnated into a different living thing. You could be a tree, or a frog, or a dog. Assuming they could identify your soul in the new body, does the life sentence apply to a human lifetime, or the lifetime of the thing you’re reincarnated as? If you reincarnate as a tree and live for 200 years, do they just move you and plant you in a field somewhere until you die, sentence served? Or does the tree have to die and you still owe a life sentence as an ant or something?

I feel like this could be a great short story

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

On the flip side you could commit suicide in prison day one reincarnate as mayflies two times in a row and be done with your sentence in 3 days.

Of course you'd have to work your way back up the chain through different organisms, but you'd have technically satisfied the terms.

Agreed someone needs to make this concept into some story. Seems like something Philip K Dick would write as a short story.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Tree prison wouldn't be getting planted in a field, it would be getting stuck next to a high traffic stroad with like a foot of root room on either side

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 9 points 8 months ago

Scientologist billion year contracts finally enforceable now.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Also your debt follows you.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

He's still got 3 hots and a cot.
Imagine if debt followed you to the next life.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

Don't give the capitalists any ideas 😞

[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 5 points 8 months ago

Karma is just debt for morality.

[–] DharkStare@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

I love the idea of karma police. It definitely sounds like the plot for an interesting movie.

[–] quaddo@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Reminds me of the Abbot in Sir Terry Pratchett’s Thief of Time.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That would actuallybekinda awesome having yourself taken care of for 3 lifetimes

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Oh it is everywhere, just that americans have gotten used to getting by without it