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Plato believed souls picked their next life

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The foundational philosopher of Western thought literally wrote a myth claiming souls pull a lottery ticket to choose their next reincarnation. If you picked a tyrant's life, you had no one to blame but yourself. A very convenient philosophical loophole for the ruling class.

Plato believed souls picked their next life
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