Quote Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore View Post
Or else it's the powerful doing what they will and the powerless suffering what they must.
So well said.

And yet... what do you think about Victor Frankl's famous assertion:

“The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity...”