# First Rung On The Bad Karma Ladder

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-rung-on-the-bad-karma-ladder/558479>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 27, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-rung-on-the-bad-karma-ladder/558479 "2010-10-27T02:30:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-rung-on-the-bad-karma-ladder/558479/1 "2010-10-27T02:30:04Z")

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Joe Martin is one of my favorite cartoonists. I prolly have 3 dozen Willy ‘n’ Ethel comics that I’ve cut out of newspapers over the years, and a handful of Mr. Boffo’s. Yeah, I keep a scrapbook after I remove them from the 'fridge rotation. I’m nutty like that. 😛

Today’s Boffo was so good, I had to share it and ask: how many other rungs are there on that ladder, and what do you figure comprises them?

[First Rung On The Bad Karma Ladder](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/snowboarderbo/Boffo26Oct2010.gif)

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**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-rung-on-the-bad-karma-ladder/558479/2 "2010-10-27T09:08:51Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> … how many other rungs are there on that ladder, and what do you figure comprises them?
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> [First Rung On The Bad Karma Ladder](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/snowboarderbo/Boffo26Oct2010.gif)

I imagine there are as many ‘rungs’ on the karma ladder as there are actions with corresponding negative consequences…IOW, innumerable.

Let’s assume murdering a total stranger, without provocation or obvious motive comes at the top of the ladder, OK?

At the start, I’d say that **'not telling the shop assistant when you have been given greater change than entitled** ’ gets one a kiddie-ride on the karma express.

YMMV etc. 🙂

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2010, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-rung-on-the-bad-karma-ladder/558479/3 "2010-10-27T12:23:45Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> Joe Martin is one of my favorite cartoonists. I prolly have 3 dozen Willy ‘n’ Ethel comics that I’ve cut out of newspapers over the years, and a handful of Mr. Boffo’s. Yeah, I keep a scrapbook after I remove them from the 'fridge rotation. I’m nutty like that. 😛
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> Today’s Boffo was so good, I had to share it and ask: how many other rungs are there on that ladder, and what do you figure comprises them?
> 
> [First Rung On The Bad Karma Ladder](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/snowboarderbo/Boffo26Oct2010.gif)

The title makes it - a bit of Dante’s Inferno in everyday life…