Do atheists believe in cosmic justice?

>Do you think there is a universal law something like equal and opposite force in place that says the good and bad will balance itself out by the time you die

No. No karma, no rewards or punishments by God, nothing like that. I do believe that the most successful society also tends to be the most moral and equitable society, but there's no guarantee; evil people can live happy lives and good people can live unhappy lives, and ultimately we're the only ones who can do anything about that, nothing and no one is there to drag ourselves out of any mire we stick ourselves in if that's what we choose to do. It's up to us.

>If you subscibe to an unfair life belief - does this bother you?

The idea that good people can suffer while bad people live in contentment? Of course that bothers me. However, it merely makes me want to do something about it...it does NOT give me the idea that it's somehow valid to believe the unfounded statements of bronze age storybooks. In fact, if anything the opposite is the case: We can't get around to fixing reality until we stop denying it.

life is like a box of chocolates...i believed in divinity until my mother spent 6months in & out of hospitals suffering every moment of everyday(she's the toughest human alive, so it was some serious friggin pain);after which it was discovered that she suffered from diabetic neuropathy(her number 1 ailment has always been diabetes, how could 15 different dr.s miss that?). spent 2 years as a complete atheist, everything is chaos, no matter what you do you wont be punished spiritually, beleived that the soul didnt exist. started to realize there was something intrinsically governing everything that happens to everyone a couple years ago. by reading and understanding stephen hawking's books, i gained a deep understanding of physics, but even hawking can't predict the future, no matter the calculations involved, there is an uncertainty principle(luck, karma, chance, call it what you may) that skews the mathematics of everything. i dont believe in a true "god", scientifically speaking, there IS an afterlife, in just 25 years i believe i've developed a solid understanding of everything that occurs in life. no matter the math, science, and study you do, there is no way to predict things w/o acknowledging the variance that comes from karma, and a cosmic balance that governs everything. i would love to have a concrete formula for life, but there is a definite possibility that mankind isn't ABLE/INTENDED to know how everything works. everything is in balance in some manner, if you have to wait to be re-incarnated as the next barack/john lennon, or if you die w/ all of your deepest hopes fulfilled, or you're re-incarnated as george w. bush and die alone and unloved, it's how you lived in response to the world you existed in that will determine your ultimate reward/punsihment. no to the god, yes to justice governing EVERYTHING.

Life was unfair to those killed in 9/11, and all their relatives. There is no way to balance the books for all those people, plus thousands of non-relatives affected in some way.

No I don't believe in cosmic justice, we could be struck by asteroid, a nearby star could go supernova, anyone of us could get run over by a bus or choke on a chicken bone or fart near a bunsen burner and go up in flames.

You have to make hay while the sun is shining and not worry about what you can't change.

The universe doesn't care about us, doesn't know about us. Doesn't know it doesn't know. There is no universal law concerning this. The univer has no mind.

I don't necessarliy think it's the best way the universe coudl be, but there's a difference between what I want to happen and what really is happening.

justice maybe not

but cause and effect yes

good and bad are balanced out, by each other

do i beleiev in the you do good you get good etc karma

no, i have not seen that to have ever been true

i have seen cause and efect

consequences of your actionsand non actions

life is unfair, in our view, in natures view, its just life, the balance, and inits view, its perfect as it is, it has both order and chaos,and they booth keep each other working

There's no cosmic justice.

Good and bad are pretty much species dependent. In our case, the human species.

The unfairness you speak of doesn't bother me.

eh.... not at all

First of all what you are saying makes no logical since at all.

Second of all you obviously have no idea what an atheist believes in the slightest.

Dont talk about something which you know nothing about... obviously

life is fair in the sense that nobody has it all , we all have some discrepancies.we are given the right to do things which will make ourselves happy and fruitful to do good to qachieve eternity , amen.

If you want something, you have to pay something.

But If you don't have any desire nor complain, you don't have to pay anything. Actually, life is trouble, but to get a life is very difficult.

Finally, Life is challenging.