Buddhist morality re: evil past
So. Setting is Shadowrun (near-future urban fantasy, somewhere in the US), character's probably from Japan. I read the Wikipedia article on Buddhism, but didn't quite get enough from it, and this is perhaps a bit subjective anywho. I think I grok karma and the 5 precepts tolerably well, but may be missing some nuance on this one.
She's a Buddhist, though not a very good one. Her family was a criminal syndicate involved in, among other things, child prostitution, and they trained her as--in essence, a knife-wielding thug. At 18 or so, she killed whoever she saw as the worst offender, and left, though she's still basically a knife-wielding thug (for hire, now).
But what, from a religious/theological viewpoint, would she probably feel and think about her past? And is there anything she'd be particularly likely to do/not do/do differently because of this?
She's a Buddhist, though not a very good one. Her family was a criminal syndicate involved in, among other things, child prostitution, and they trained her as--in essence, a knife-wielding thug. At 18 or so, she killed whoever she saw as the worst offender, and left, though she's still basically a knife-wielding thug (for hire, now).
But what, from a religious/theological viewpoint, would she probably feel and think about her past? And is there anything she'd be particularly likely to do/not do/do differently because of this?
