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I don't see any reason to believe in fate. Plus, the belief that something MUST happen because it's either written somewhere or because someone believes it strongly has caused a lot of damage in human history. One very awful example I've read about is when communist intellectuals accepted Hitler's rise because they saw fascism as a necessary step to the "fate" of communism: the overthrow of the expropriators. They excused him as a passing phase along communism's path to destiny. Whoops.
"Destiny," "fate" and "prophecy" all seem like dangerous ways of interpreting the world. These easily breed myopic fanatics.
Plus, fate only looks, and works, backwards. When something happens we say "ah! It was fated" after the fact. Before the fact we have no idea. Humans also seem terrible at prediction in general. So our interpretations of history often fool us into thinking we can look both into the past and into the future.
I do believe in faith, because a lot of people seem to have it. Whether it does them any good is a separate question...
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