“Destiny is real—your life's major events are predetermined”
Agree
- Looking back, everything fits together perfectly
- Genetics and environment determine outcomes
- Coincidences are too meaningful to be random
- Some people just seem destined for things
- Physics is deterministic at the macro level
Disagree
- We make genuine choices constantly
- Destiny is just hindsight bias
- People change their paths all the time
- Belief in fate removes accountability
- Chaos theory shows unpredictability is real
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