On the contrary, for all practical purposes, it sounds like common sense to me. Mary and Joe and abortions and banned books exist only because something exists rather than nothing at all. And this particular existence exists as it does for a reason. Or for no reason at all. And we [the human species] either have minds able to access this one way or the other or we don’t.
Though, sure, we can go about the task of living our lives from day to day and not give these really, really hard “Big Questions” a second thought.
On the other hand, how many philosophers [serious or otherwise] do you know that actually will?
Most folks here are drawn to questions that…mind-boggling? Still, are we “fated” to? Is this whole exchange that we are having just one more set of dominoes toppling over onto each other going all the way back to the very beginning of space and time itself? A space and time that may well not have had a very beginning at all?
Anyway, that they are rational already means they do think the same, which is: make the most efficient use of what you have before you.
So here we are, I wrote, you answered, I replied, and a rational man that reads it will be obligated to weigh it fairly and act upon fate as fate.
Note to others:
So, what do you think, does that settle it?