The Hero with a Thousand Faces Fate and Free Will Quotes

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Quote #10

This accords with the view that herohood is predestined, rather than simply achieved, and opens the problem of the relationship of biography to character (294.3)

Here's the problem of shining steel rails, aka, "destiny calls the shots no matter what." It denies the human experience, where we grow and learn and gradually become wiser. Without that process, which includes us making choices and living with the consequences, we could lose the purpose of being human.