Hee hee, I've had massive arguments with people about determinism. (I like your triskellion avatar by the way.) Personally I believe that every action has one or more causes, even decisions by people. I believe that if you could decode a persons dna, follow them throughout their life, you could predict every decision and choice they would make. I believe that you could deduce the entire future of Miss Emily Boggins from the big bang. I can think of a million things to hint that the universe is deterministic, but none that it is not.... however that doesn't make peoples choices any less significant to my mind, it makes me hopeful, and it makes me not regret things.
I wouldn't say I'm so much deterministic. I feel that we choose the paths for us, and thus our actions and desires in turn decide our future. I think that we can change our future if we so desire. However, I don't regret things either becuase even if a decision has negative elements, there has been some positive outcome from it. It has developed you into the person you are today and because of that it was worth it, so why regret? :-D
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