(This might be predicated on your own beliefs. Whether or not you believe in karma. If you don't, I'd be interested in your speculation on these questions. And if you do, I'd be interested in your opinion on these matters as well)

Do you believe in karma? It certainly seems like satanists do, and they seem to operate on principles around karma, and more specifically avoiding bad karma.

We've all heard "They have to tell you what they're doing", and the "why" to that statement usually leads to avoiding karmic retribution.

The common example is: "If I give you a poison apple, and you eat it and die", that karma is on me and I pay for it. However, if I give you a poison apple, and tell you it's poison, and you eat it, then that is on you. You made the choice to eat it, even knowing what it was.

My question is why do they believe that? If karma is real, and there is some kind of cosmic force like God enforcing that, why would there be loopholes? One parallel with our own society is "Letter of Law" vs "Spirit of the Law". And there have been actual trials that defer to the spirit of the law many times.

So how is it they would avoid bad karma while practicing deceitful ways of telling you what they are doing? Back to the poison apple example: if I gave you a poison apple and said "Here is a lason apple" and then you eat it, do I avoid karma? ("Lason" means poison in Tagalog).

The whole symbolism and telling you what they are doing seems coherent, and once you are awake, you certainly do see it everywhere and understand it. But I'd say the vast vast majority do not. They do not understand or see it.

So if karma was a real thing, why would there be a loophole like this? Somehow karma determines every wrong or rightful action you could possibly take, but ends up failing if you know how to game it?

It just seems very strange to me, if karma is real, why would it not go with the "spirit of your actions"?