Cause and Effect vs. Fate and Destiny A young man sees a palm reader in order to find what his future holds. The dark and mysterious turbaned figure looks cross-eyed at the young man's hand and croaks, "You will die by water!" Well, that is enough for this young man (his great grandmother was a palm reader herself). Though he lives on the western coast of the United States, he moves to a place in …showed first 75 words of 799 total…

…showed last 75 words of 799 total…on the other hand one does call a doctor, then one's “fate” may be to survive the illness. Determinism is not a philosophy that supports the idea of fate. It is the belief that a system of events is entirely causal, nothing more, nothing less. Fatalism is based on principle that the effect will be the same no matter the cause. They are two separate philosophies and should not be mistaken as one integral belief.