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What does it mean?
If something is inevitable it has a claim to existence.
In plain terms
Things that must happen have a right to be.
What can you take from it?
Accept inevitable realities.

Where it applies

  • accepting reality
  • fatalism

Putting it to work

  • Focus on the inevitable

Questions to consider

  • What must happen anyway?
  • Do you accept fate?

Another view

Necessity does not imply moral rightness.

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