Determinism is above all mediocre and cowardly. Although it is, to some extent, severely ironized by fate, an understanding of reality that gives way to free will is infinitely superior to summarizing the human being in a puppet. If merit inexorably ends in defeat, and many, many times falters or is overturned in its own field of action, it does not mean that it does not give dignity to the being who excuses himself from justifications that only evidences his impotence. To understand the world as immune to human action and human action as an uncontrollable phenomenon is to summarize the human being in a dog—which can even be true, as long as not taken as universal.
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