0 the belief that people cannot change the way events will happen and that events, especially bad ones, cannot be avoided --
1 the belief that people cannot change the way events will happen and that esp. bad events cannot be avoided --
I take it that this would be the analogue of the logical argument for fatalism.
Fatalism and silence were respected modes of survival during the long war.
The next outcome to which we turn is fatalism.
Although commitment to conditional fatalism does not itself import a commitment to fatalism, it is hard to find a separate motivation for it.
And that ground, when applied back to the undetermined actual future, will have fatalism as its consequence.
Risking unwanted pregnancies when preventable has been characterized as reflecting fatalism, unconscious motivation for motherhood, or irrationality.
They seemed to drink in the same fatalism that they attributed to the unemployed.
But it was a scepticism that often translated into pragmatism rather than fatalism.