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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It sort of fits somewhere close to the pigs one (which is arguing that everyone is shitty so everyone always deserves the shittiness), but that one is more sort of suggesting that the shitty things happen regardless while this one is sort of implying some mechanism is at work (whether destiny, a judgemental god, or just mechanistic determinism) to ensure that shitty things specifically happen to people who deserve them.

Those two you could actually fudge a bit to be more or less the same, but you could also easily interpret them in different ways.

Nah. "Reap what you sow" explicitly says you will be affected by your own consequences. Basic cause and effects unto one's self (and since it's almost always used in the negative sense, it can be boiled down to "you did this to yourself" or "you only have yourself to blame.").

Destiny/judgemental god would be more of a "shit happens" line, since it implies something bad is happening to a person, regardless if they actually did anything to earn the bad thing happening or not.

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