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I believe that both Fate and Free Will exist together. It is my belief that the track of our lives is laid out and Fated for us at the moment of our birth, sort of like the gates on a croquet field. We are destined to pass through all of those wickets before the end of our lives. However, we have the Free Will to choose the patern we take through those gates, and to attempt to avoid them (though that is a fruitless task). It is the path we choose to take to complete the course and our reaction to each of those meaningful moments that determines how well or poorly we are seen to have lived our lives.
So, according to this, if someone dies at 23, he/she was slated to go at 23? Death was unavoidable. It makes no difference. If he does everything right, he gets hit by a beer truck while working on a road crew. Or, if he is an unemployed louse, he buys it while drinking beer and smashing his car into a wall. Really?
The person getting cancer and dying at 55 from smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day would have died at 55 even if he never smoked and had instead partaken in running marathons? In short, this theory implies that Russians are fated to die young, so they may as well not bother cutting back on the Vodka.
I'm not sure I buy that one.