No good deed goes unpunished.
What goes around comes around.
You’d think those two pearls of faded adages would be cousins of some kind or the other, and they are if you think they are both about mystical magical means of cosmic justice. Yeah, justice is a chick and she’s blind, cosmically maybe, figuratively definitely.
No good deed goes unpunished because just about everybody hates the good Samaritan, the altruistic good guy. He rubs are nose in how base and shallow we are. He’s gonna get his out of envy, out of our perceived notion of his superior tone (he doesn’t need one, we’re inferior enough to hear that tone even when we are deaf and blind). This makes it true more often than not; we will punish someone for doing when good because if he’s not an asshole somehow we are.
What goes around comes around is simpler and easier and isn’t dependent on “us”. A professional asshole, a guy who builds up karmic debt, doesn’t need the existence of karma. He’s an asshole and the one time he isn’t telfon, that he squirms his way out, he’ll get the full extent of an ass whopping because he is an ass whopping waiting to happen.
I’m not saying there isn’t a unicorn or fat elf or devine patriarch in the sky keeping score; I’m just saying human nature gives both the good guy and the bad guy their comeuppance. Oddly enough human nature forgives you if you show remorse. I don’t even know what the fuck that is. It’s like I’m sorry. After the forty-ninth I’m sorry it’s hard to believe the person saying it isn’t counting on another old axiom; it’s easier to get forgiveness than permission.
Alright I’ve warmed up the stump; bring your own soap box.
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