| Re: Melkor: evil by will, nature or fate?
Since I didn't give my thoughts on Melkor I will put them down now...
Inevitable is an interesting thought because it is based on a concept that no human could ever accomplish...forknowledge. For the same reason that time travel movies don't accurately show what would happen to the person in the future if the changed the past, we can't understand inevitability. Only a being living outside time could truly understand that concept. Humans can only understand it in the past tense. We can understand laws of science and their "inevitable" reactions, but this is truly not inevitability but it is the reaction that happened in all other cases and is almost definitely going to happen. Those are laws...it gets much more complicated with sentient beings
That said, the only one who can judge inevitability would be a being outside of time who could look at the possible actions and outcomes BEFORE any action happens. Therefore, as they say, only God knows. |