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Does Work for a Munitions
Company Incur Negative Karma?
Q: Some karmic things are real difficult
for me to sort out. For instance, let’s say someone works for a law firm
where, in the course of his job, he is gaining valuable lessons in
life-learning: either organizational skills and leadership skills, but the
people—some of the attorneys for instance, that he is working for maybe
trying cases and citing on the side of the issue which he has an ethical
problem. Does that person incur bad karma for helping to facilitate to
ability of that attorney to try the case on something— RK: I do not think so. It is just like the
people who go to work for a firm that manufacture napalm. Do they receive
karmic debts because the Air Force drops them on people in Q: But, as soon as they find out what the
company is doing, do they have an obligation not to work for the company? RK: No. They do not have an obligation to.
There is no karmic obligation to do so. Q: If they are looking for a job and they
just— RK: I think it is just a moral or ethical
issue for the individual. If you say, “I just cannot support what is used
for—it is just like working for a firearms company and then complaining about
the people that get killed by firearms. If that is an ethical problem, then
look elsewhere, but at the same time you cannot hold people responsible
people who manufacture the kitchen knives for the number of people that get
stabbed every year because knives are not made, primarily, for stabbing
people. They are made as a valuable tool. Guns are a valuable tool either for
protecting yourself or also for hunting as a means that you get meat for your
family. A tool is one thing, how it is used is another. We all the
opportunity to use a match to burn down our neighbors house, but that does
not mean that because it happens sometimes that we should not have matches
anymore or knives anymore or guns anymore. If you feel that you do not want
to be involved in that “any way, shape, or form” then do not work for match
companies do not work for knife companies. |
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