If you find yourself losing patience with someone, remember that they are an ape adrift in an alien world, born into a struggle they did not choose, bullied by impulses they cannot control, searching for answers they will not find, and condemned to a fate they do not deserve.
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Appreciate the reply, but I'm massively confused about how fatalism isn't a direct implication of determinism. And if it is, then how would it not relegate us all as mere witnesses of fate playing out. (Just thinking aloud. I understand if you wouldn't have time to explain.)
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Fatalism is a direct implication of determinism. But fate doesn't just operate *on* us; it also operates *through* us; we fulfill it with our actions. And we are fated to act as though we are free.
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