Which of the following best captures the "proportionality problem" that Kaufman raises with the idea of karma as a theodicy?
A) It is hard to believe that so many people have done such horrible things as to deserve the kind of suffering that we see in the world.
B) Because we cannot remember past lives, karma requires that in each life, we suffer for all of bad things we have done in all of our past lives.
C) Since karmic punishment must be spread out over indefinitely many lives, we each suffer only a portion of what we deserve in this life.
D) It is not always possible for karma to inflict on people what they have inflicted on others in their past lives.

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The "proportionality problem" refers to the difficulty in reconciling the immense suffering observed in the world with the idea that this suffering is a result of bad actions in past lives. It questions the fairness and balance of karma by highlighting the challenge in believing that such a vast amount of suffering is deserved based on past actions.

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