Fate Vs Free Will Research Paper

The happenings of an individual’s life are undoubtedly owed to fate. As humans, we have control over nothing that happens to us. This is because life, though it may seem complex is actually just a simple equation. The equation of life is a person's genetics plus the random events that happen to the person throughout their life and the person is whatever the combination of the former two variables dictates. Everything you ever do is owed to a predetermined genetic code reacting to the random events life throws at you. Free will is defined by The Merriam-Webster Dictionary as the freedom of humans to make choices that are not determined by prior causes or by divine intervention. The problem with that definition is that everything we ever do is built upon the foundation of our genetics. Every choice we make is influenced by our genetics, and our internal compass which we have possessed since birth. Humans don’t get to choose which family they are born into. Humans don’t get to

People have no control over the external events that happen to them over the course of their life. For example a healthy toddler may wander off into traffic to retrieve a balloon, they let go of, get struck by a vehicle and die as a result of the collision. That toddler didn’t make a conscious decision to walk into an extremely dangerous situation and die. They were guided to that moment by an inner force telling them to retrieve the balloon they had just lost. They did not choose to be hit by the car, and they did not choose to be so enamored with the balloon that they would chase the object into oncoming traffic. Everything in that situation was predetermined by the toddlers nature and the events going on around the toddler. Every situation an individual finds themselves in is a combination of that individual's nature and the events happening around