Determinism

Suppose that every event or action has a sufficient cause, which brings that event about. Today, in our scientific age, this sounds like a reasonable supposition. I couldn't imagine someone seriously claiming that when it rains, or when a plane crashes, or when a business succeeds, there might be no cause for it. Surely, human behavior is caused. It doesn't just happen for any reason at all. The types of human behavior for which people …

…action must be inevitable; nobody really has any choice about anything because we are all helpless products of blind forces, which have made us what we are. Therefore, whatever is determined to happen by the past history of the universe is going to happen. A person's biography was written before he or she was born, so there's no sense in making an effort. Whatever will be will be, whatever the person does or doesn't do.