Character-driven karma is not mystical

Character-driven karma is not mystical—it is a logical consequence of personality expressed over time. A person’s core traits—arrogance, entitlement, or cruelty—shape the choices they repeatedly make, often harming others along the way. Those repeated actions increase the probability of exposure or failure, yet the timing and form of consequences are rarely neat. Human lives are interconnected in complex, chaotic networks: chance encounters, systemic quirks, and unpredictable alignments can delay or deflect outcomes, meaning karma sometimes bites only after years—or in spectacularly visible ways. When it does arrive, the “bite” often serves a dual purpose: it imposes costs on the wrongdoer while, indirectly, delivering justice to those harmed. In this way, character-driven karma can be understood as a probabilistic mechanism of moral physics—rooted in human behaviour, amplified by systemic interactions, and occasionally striking with dramatic inevitability.

My belief is that all karma is character-driven. It is cause and effect ultimately. But each of us have our personal views on this topic.