Still, the fear on the writer’s part is real.
Anyways, that’s what “bad karma” signifies here.
Karma is a Buddhism concept which especially means that all one’s actions have their inevitable consequences. In other words, one reaps what one sows. In the literally sense, if you sow the seeds of sesame, you’ll reap sesame; if you sow the seeds of watermelon, you’ll reap watermelon.
Weather permitting, etc and so forth, of course, but generally speaking, that is true.
Metaphorically speaking, karma simply means that good deeds bring good while bad begets bad.
Sometimes, the effects or consequences of an action may be immediate and obvious, sometimes not. For example, if you try to pick the pocket of someone in the shopping mall and he finds out before you can get away, you may get slapped in the face. That’s your karma right there and it serves you right, even though there is always the chance, or hope, that the owner of the wallet you are trying to steal may be so generous in heart that he will let you go scot free - sparing you the slap in the face.
Sometimes, the consequences may be long coming. Take traditional family feuds for instance, as Mark Twain explains (in the voice of a boy in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn):
A feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man and kills him; then that other man’s brother kills him; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the cousins chip in – and by and by everybody’s killed off….
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