A speaker argues that guaranteed outcomes kill meaning. Using a video game with an unbeatable sword as an analogy, they compare it to Greek gods who envied mortals because mortals faced uncertainty while gods' fates were fixed.
Have you ever played a video game where you have the ultimate sword day one and you know where every monster is and you can't lose because you have an impenetrable shield on? It stops being fun. And it's the same reason that the Greek gods envied the mortals. Anything could happen, whereas the gods' outcomes were guaranteed. And so we have this perception that we want this thing, but if we really were to have that guarantee, it would circumvent the reason it's worth pursuing to begin with.
