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Good Things Happen to Bad People

It doesn’t make sense

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Aug 31, 2025
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Why do good things happen to bad people?

Two dictators lived into their nineties. Ninety years of comfort, of control, of getting away with it. It doesn’t make sense.

We expect balance. If you do harm, harm should return to you. That’s what we know. Karma. Justice. The scales should even out. But the world doesn’t always work like that. Sometimes the wors…

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