There are already signs that some people have come to view this trend fatalistically.

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As I see it, we either play our hand, however unfavorable it appears to be, or we concede defeat and fatalistically accept the consequences.

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Mr Netanyahu speaks almost fatalistically of the ferment in the region.

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"Rather we want people to actively set social and physical bounds around the use of technologies and not just fatalistically accept the direction technology is heading in, " he wrote.

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