“Believing you have control over your life outcomes is the most dangerous delusion”
Agree
- Randomness and luck determine most outcomes
- Control illusion creates unjust victim-blaming
- Success is mostly circumstance not effort
- Agency belief causes unnecessary self-punishment
Disagree
- Personal agency creates real measurable outcomes
- Choices compound into different life trajectories
- Learned helplessness is genuinely harmful
- Some control is real even if not total
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