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The Fatalism Confusion

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Fatalism says outcomes happen regardless of what you do; determinism says outcomes happen because of what you do. Conflating them is the classic error.

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The fatalist skips the doctor—"if I'm meant to recover, I will." The determinist goes: treatment is a cause.