The attempt to claim inevitability or some supreme access truth is an old way to avoid addressing merits, usually because the argument doesn't have many merits.

The attempt to claim inevitability or some supreme access truth is an old way to avoid addressing merits, usually because the argument doesn't have many merits. People have many drives in them, good and bad, violent and peaceful, altruistic and selfish. We are not biologically different than Gandhi or Hitler, than Trump or Biden, than our saintly and truly demonic ancestors. You have all those people in you, all those drives. You have a choice: As ancient texts and very many since will tell you, we have a choice; we have the free will to follow one drive or another. When people are very afraid, they are more likely to both do desperate things and to not think about them (physiologically being in a traumatic state, without their frontal cortex working well). That's one reason some leaders try to terrify their followers - by making them think things are terrifying and desperate, they can manipulate their followers into choosing evil things. A great signal of a bad leader is someone who creates and inflames fear (which also goes back to ancient scriptures [0]). In contrast, even in the most desperate situations, think of how Washington and Jefferson responded, think of Lincoln, of Churchill and FDR, of MLK and Mandela, of Eisenhower - 'the only thing we have to fear is fear itself'. Not even a lieutenant or sergeant of any respect engenders fear in their followers; they are calm under fire. We lack a prominant leader like that today; many abdicate good leadership and responsibility to society as if the abdication is a fashionable outfit that they simply must have for the party. I'm confident that when such a leader steps forward, people will follow in droves (and they will be much targeted by the evil leaders who will see the true threat to them). The evidence of other drives is overwhelming: Peace, love for our neighbors, tourism, universal human rights - embraced in cultures all over the world and in the foundation of the United States (and France and many others). it happens every day everywhere. It happens for me in my city every day, with complete strangers. It's a choice. It's my choice and yours. [0] Matthew 7:15: ""Beware of false prophets .... Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."