
Originally Posted by
josephdc
Dili ba naa'y duha ka version sa belief sa reincarnation? I read it somewhere nga there are those daw who believe that a person can only reincarnate as another person and not into "lower" kinds of life forms like animals or insects, while there are also those who believe that a man can reincarnate into those life forms.
I think the problem with the latter view is that animals and insects are not moral agents, they're not capable of making morally right or wrong acts, so how can the law of karma operate in such a situation? How can they do good deeds in order to merit good karma in the next life?
Also, don't reincarnation justify poverty and other social ills in society? In India for example, won't a Hindu interfere with his or her own "karma" if he helps those who belong to a lower caste and are therefore suffering from hunger or injustice? It seems that, from his view, people suffer because they deserved it for the bad things they committed in the previous life.