Fate can't be proved either way, so believing in it is pointless because there's no personal gain from believing in it. It just makes you feel like you aren't in control of anything you do, which is not a very human feeling to have.
I personally doubt it's existance somewhat - I couldn't give a shit either way, but by the use of Occam's Razor, and a careful look at what makes us do what we do, I'm inclined to lean toward fate being nonexistant. As far as I know, I use my brain to control the things that I do, and science has already proven that our brain has a process of reason, deduction, and logic. If fate controlled everything, then we wouldn't need these. But you could always go off on a lengthy spiel to describe how fate DOES have control over it. Either way if you can never explain it to the idiots, and you can never totally prove it to the scientifically inclined, it's a waste of time thinking, arguing, or dedicating any amount of energy to it.
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