If a baby fell from a window, no one would refuse to catch him on the grounds that we shouldn't interfere with the law of gravity. We would immediately recognize that such a claim is ridiculous. It is just as ridiculous to refuse to alleviate suffering because doing so would interfere with the law of karma. Everything that happens to us is in large measure the result of our karma. If we were to follow this "noninterference" theory, we would never help anyone in distress. Refusing to "interfere" with karma would leave no place for compassionate action in the world, a notion that is the antithesis of Buddhist teaching.
---The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights, by Norm Phelps---
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