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"Finish your work and leave. That's heaven's way" -Tao Te Ching Nothing fatal about it.
by declan_roberts 2y ago
"Finish your work and leave. That's heaven's way" -Tao Te Ching
Nothing fatal about it.
- schiffern 2y agoYou missed where I point out that "fatalism" is not about "fatal" (it's about "fate") and I hypothesized that this misunderstanding causes people to overlook knowledge that might guard against those superstitious beliefs. Thanks for proving my point. ;-D If you genuinely subscribe to such fatalistic beliefs, I presume you never look both ways to cross the road? Maybe you make an exception in that case, but then why wouldn't that same logic apply to other risk mitigating behaviors? Why the special pleading? The only rational basis is cost vs. benefit, which the article addresses. This bogus "fate vs. thwarting fate" argument is always applied inconsistently, as a way to justify preexisting personal bias.