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Originally posted by tiberry
I think (believe) that everything we do is perfect. In other words, all choices, decisions, turns, EVERYTHING that we do could not have happened any other way. I don't believe in fate mind you, that usually infers some other hand involved and we're just 'playing along'. Of course its easy for us to look back and say 'what if?' - even more so if we feel we've made a "wrong" decision. In my view, there are no "wrong" decisions. There's no right or wrong for that matter. Its much easier to live life without any expectations of a specific result or outcome of your decisions. Just BE. You can CREATE any reality for yourself that you choose once you learn to LET GO of the fear of failure...
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I think you are getting confused, the first part of your post appeals to determinism, ie that there is no free will, that everything will turn out the way it always was going to turn out. This does imply that there is no such thing as morality so we can't really judge anyones actions.
I don't agree with this view, but anyway, you go on to say that we can create any reality for ourselves that we choose. You can't have it both ways, either everything is determined and we have no choice, or we can choose our future, and there is such a thing as right and wrong. You can't have both.
As for the original subject, my feeling is that small differences can change things, but they don't have to. Obviously if Hitler's parents hadn't met each other, we wouldn't have had Hitler, but maybe we would have had someone similar fill his place. We can't know, and worrying about it doesn't seem to get us anywhere.
It is interesting to think about, but I don't think that we can learn to shape our futures better from it. I might be wrong though, does anyone think that we can learn from this contemplation?