much of the karma going around is related to someone's honor being slighted for which they seek to get even or ahead on...
what are your thoughts on where honor ends and karma begins?
I think it can very, very quickly turn into a slippery slope when one battles with violence to establish, extract, or force honor. Btw, I still have trouble with some of the teachings in Bhagavad Gita along these lines being that the warriors on both sides of the epic could have chosen to change their stance for sake the first law of non-violence. In other words I think it is 99.99% impossible to fight violently without karma of some degree.
(thus around and around we go)