Do Bad People Have It Coming?

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I have certainly known of some bad ratbags who came to a bad end from serious accidents. And other bad ratbags who prospered until an advanced age. So if there is Karma or some other kind of heavenly
retribution, it seems to be very inconsistent. So I sit on the fence as an agnostic

No. Most bad people who do very bad things either get away with it or get the proverbial light slap on the wrist.

^Agreed 100%

nope, not in this lifetime, because the devil rewards his own while they are alive.

I wonder if you guys (people on the autism spectrum) might have trouble judging the quality of life of your enemies. And not just you, I wonder if there are particular social groups that may find it easier or harder to judge if "bad people" (enemies) are either reaping easy gains from their bad deeds or are finding themselves eventual victims of their poor decisions.

You'd have to have a grasp on Theory of Mind, which is the notion that another person has an existence that is separate from your own and that their perceptions, thoughts, and ideas are also separate and therefore perhaps different from your own.

You would have to assess "what kind of person" that other person is, and then imagine what it would be like to "be" that other person.

Then you would have to assess the quality of life that the other person is experiencing as they are walking about using their own internal systems and inner states of being.

I'm thinking of several autistic and non-autistic people and I think it may be difficult for them to judge if a person who is bad is really doing well or not. A person may appear to be doing well but not, and vice versa.

A very interesting thought, AA.

I agree that this is indeed how it works.

Maybe really bad crooks who get in gang violence with each other, or military combatants - physical violence may occasionally pick them off. But if we go just above the dotted line from physical violence to psychological violence, then yes, I think you've nailed it, in that all Narcissists and Machiavellians have an uncanny sense of what they diabolically can get away with - cutting a lifelong psychologically toxic swath through the world, and not ever seeming to *visibly* suffer for it. They're always right, never wrong. They admit to nothing, and show no remorse.

Their inner world is another story, and especially what their state of mind at the time of death is like; that's another matter. Not easy to know. I'd sincerely like to know demographically what sentiment or emotional presentation they tend to have right at the time of death. Perhaps some justice can be seen there.

No, the bad guys benefit and the group suffers. When no one speaks for the group, everyone suffers except the bad guys.