I strongly believe in Karma BUT ..

[Paladino]

Does karma happen if something was an accident? they say if someone does something deliberately wrong then karma will get them but what if it was an accident, does karma still apply?

[Elysium]

I don't believe in karma, but if I did, I would believe it's based on intention. If you didn't intend to do something, you wouldn't get karma for it, good or bad.

[Plane And Simple]

I don't believe in karma, but if I did, I would believe it's based on intention. If you didn't intend to do something, you wouldn't get karma for it, good or bad.

Agreed. I don't believe in it either but I mean if you accidentally hit somebody because your car's brakes went and caused some dent, I don't think you needed karma for something that wasn't within your control.

[Zachary G]

karma does work on intention, but if you do something by accident and ask for forgiveness for that act then karma will not apply. karma means action, work or deed; it also refers to the principle of causality where intent and actions of an individual influence the future of that individual.

[phuckphace]

the concept of karma in the actual sense is detestable and degenerate in my opinion. a widely-held belief that misery and suffering are divine retribution for someone's misdeeds in an alleged "past life" absolutely demolishes social solidarity and leads to permanent, gaping class divides. see: India, one of the most awful places on the planet. imagine if you lived in a place where a few bums die of typhoid on the sidewalk in front of your house every day and everyone just steps over their rotting corpses like it's nothing. that's what "karma" does to people.

[Miserabilia]

I personaly think karma is nonsense BUT that is kind of rude of me and irrelevant to your question OP.
As to the question, assuming karma is true, it would be like a kind of moral justice system but in life instead of an afterlife like heaven and hell is in religion.
So, I'll just concider the same sysem applies to accidents; as it's a moral issue, you won't get negative karma from accidentaly killing someone, like hitting them with your car, unless you're doing it on purpose.
Then again, you don't really have the whole religious "forgivesness" thing in karma, so I'm not sure.

[Hyper]

Not so sure about past lives or the traditional ''karma''

But in a way karma does exist as a social mechanism, if you are an asshole to lots of people the odds are that more people will be an asshole towards you as opposed to if you were say neutral to people or as nice to everyone as you could be.

[DeadEyes]

The karma, another futile invention of the human mind.

[Paladino]

The karma, another futile invention of the human mind.

It is the same way if people believe in religion or not.

[DeadEyes]

It is the same way if people believe in religion or not.

And religion has to be the most futile invention of them all.

[Paladino]

I agree with this, it causes major problems here, with protestants and catholics and in Northern Ireland.

[CharlieHorse]

I don't think karma exists to be honest. Doing something morally bad always is subjective. The whole concept of morality is a societal construct, so i doubt there's some mystical force in the universe dictating that.

[Indio]

Does karma happen if something was an accident? they say if someone does something deliberately wrong then karma will get them but what if it was an accident, does karma still apply?

Karma is the consequence of your actions. For every action, there's corresponding reaction even not related to what you do. It's the same concept what is said in the bible "what you sow is what you reap. If you do good things to others, good things will bounced back to you. If you do more bad things so bad things will bounced back to you. So be careful what you say to others or what you do.

[fairmaiden]

I believe in karma (in some way). If you do something by accident, then I don't think anything negative will happen to you as it wasn't intentional. Also, I don't know if you guys have ever heard someone say this, but there is some phrase that people say which is like 'all of your wrongs are then passed onto your children'. I seriously hate that phrase because I think it's so wrong for people to insinuate that an innocent kid is going to pay for their parents' wrongs.

[Paladino]

I believe in karma (in some way). If you do something by accident, then I don't think anything negative will happen to you as it wasn't intentional. Also, I don't know if you guys have ever heard someone say this, but there is some phrase that people say which is like 'all of your wrongs are then passed onto your children'. I seriously hate that phrase because I think it's so wrong for people to insinuate that an innocent kid is going to pay for their parents' wrongs.

That is an actual LAW in North Korea btw, frightening! I just wish something good would come around once in a while when I do something good as when I do something bad I most definitely get punished for it.

[Aajj333]

Does karma happen if something was an accident? they say if someone does something deliberately wrong then karma will get them but what if it was an accident, does karma still apply?

Karma doesn't happen, it's not like the weather cycle where we know it will precipitate, evaporate, then condensate and so on. It's a philosophy where if you do good people will generally be nice back to you.

[DeadEyes]

It's a philosophy where if you do good people will generally be nice back to you.

Definitely so and definitely not a philosophy I adhere to. Many good people has bad things happening to them and bad people having good things happening to them as well. Now, if one tells me they are just paying for what they did in a past life, I will simply ignore that person from now on.

[Paladino]

I often see the best people being treated like shit in life, so it is a weird one.

[fairmaiden]

That is an actual LAW in North Korea btw, frightening! I just wish something good would come around once in a while when I do something good as when I do something bad I most definitely get punished for it.

That's really horrible! I don't know why no other country has stepped into to abolish that law; it's disgusting.

[Paladino]

Well, I spoke to another girl while I was with my ex and she didn't like it and I think her sick way of breaking up with me is karma getting back at me, who knows.

[Hudor]

the concept of karma in the actual sense is detestable and degenerate in my opinion. a widely-held belief that misery and suffering are divine retribution for someone's misdeeds in an alleged "past life" absolutely demolishes social solidarity and leads to permanent, gaping class divides. see: India, one of the most awful places on the planet. imagine if you lived in a place where a few bums die of typhoid on the sidewalk in front of your house every day and everyone just steps over their rotting corpses like it's nothing. that's what "karma" does to people.

That though derogatory is actually the grave truth. It is sad.
Some people follow religious leaders and their preachings blindly, to the letter.

In response to the OP's question, i think every action has an equal and opposite reaction though i don't think any mystic, magical powers are involved in the process.