What if you killed more than one person?Liberator wrote:What are the side effects of using death spells? Is it true that when you use one it comes back and you have to die too eventually?
It's not that simple, I'm afraid...Rin wrote:If you have the power to kill someone with magic, you have the power to stop them doing whatever they're doing without killing them.
About karma I would say the following:
Imagine a situation when you use - for example - some sort of spell that makes a stone fall down and crush a car. It doesn't cause much of that karmic baclash, does it?
Now another situation. You cast a spell that makes the same stone fall down and kill someone.
It is exactly the same to me. In both cases you cause some piece of matter fall and destroy another piece of matter. After all you don't inflict damage to the soul of that person, only to mundane, physical stuff of which both that car and human are made; you can say that person still does live, just detached from some piece of low-quality meat and bones. So actually there is no reason to get greater karmic backlash in the second case
Humans tend to value life of other humans higher than of any other creature, despite the fact that most animals feel fear, pain etc. just as humans do. You kill the mosquito that annoys you, but you don't kill a man doing the same. As we all are taught since our birth that "thou shalt not kill" or something like that, and the law prohibites it, our unconscious mind gradually becomes convinced that killing a human automatically results in some sort of penalty. Therefore this punishment becomes true (unless your mind works in some other way than that of most humans) and you probably will somehow be damaged by your own action, be it magickal or mundane attack. But it is only in your head and probably can be overcame. You know, the universe itself doesn't worship any religion, nor is it subordinate to ideas of some race of insignificant beings with overgrown ego dwelling on a small planet amidst the infinite space
