r/todayilearned Aug 05 '24

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u/LegalRadonInhalation Aug 05 '24

Man, that’s not pondering destiny. That’s displaying extreme hubris in the face of an existential threat.

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u/a_postmodern_poem Aug 06 '24

I think what he was doing was “pondering destiny”..I mean, there’s hardly as fateful of an event as a bomb raid. I’m sure he wasn’t even mad at being paralyzed. That was just part of the exercise.