Karma

Many people believe in a such thing as karma. After reading something today I'm unsure if I believe in it. A guy expressed that in his culture they believe in reincarnation. He believes that every act done, no matter how insignificant, will eventually return to the doer with equal impact. Good will be returned with good; evil with evil. Now many people will say that this is true. But since Hindus believe in reincarnation, karma knows no simple birth/death boundaries."If good or evil befall you, it is because of something you did in this or a previous lifetime" So if this is true then why does good happen to the bad and vice versa. Well he says everybody is getting what he or she deserves. "Even the child brutalized by drugged adults deserves the horror. The mentally ill, the retarded, and the millions of Jews killed by the Nazis deserved it for evil they must have done in the past. The slave beaten to within a breath of death deserved it, if not for what he did today, then for what he did in some previous lifetime. Likewise for the rape victim. She is just getting what she deserves. All suffering is deserved, according to the law of karma." Can someone say such things like this. He is a firm believer, what I don't understand is how can someone say you deserved to be raped no one deserves that, not even the worst person alive. How can someone be blamed for the person they were in there past life. I always thought that once you were born you had a clean slate. If this is true then, what will my next life look like? I've done my share of good as well as bad.