The Belt of Silence Between Causality and Karma Press enter or click to view image in full size Image created by author Abstract This article introduces the Nonvolitive Catalyst Theory, a framework for clarifying a blind spot in classical doctrines of karma and in theories of moral luck. Ethical reflection has long centred on the agent who acts with intention, though it still lacks a precise category for the entity whose presence becomes a necessary condition of another person’s ruin without incurring moral culpability. Drawing on Buddhist Abhidhamma, Jain discussions of incidental involvement, and modern analytic philosophy, the article develops the concept of Causal-Moral Asymmetry in order to distinguish causal entanglement from moral attribution. Its central claim is that the web of causality is wider than the domain of moral responsibility.…