Is the opposite of dangerous. Being informed helps people make better decisions, and on a macro scale it helps society progress by not basing the collecting decisions on erroneous or untruths ideologies. The example you gave is theoretically possible and it may have happened once a century but, the reality is that people that does not believe the religious belief of free-will, do not behave like that.

You gave an argument against free will based on Determinism, but there are other good and even better arguments IMO. Like the science-centrist arguments of Neuroscience , Psychological and the Evolutionary Arguments. Then there are the philosophical Arguments from Divine Predestination or Fate. There are still more but the fun is on the discovery.

“Feelings are like children, you can’t let them drive, but you can’t put them in the trunk.”

But I feel that one has a ¨spiritual parent¨:

“Educate a child so you don’t have to reprimand an adult.”

and a ¨spiritual sibling¨:

“If your only tool is a Hammer then every problem looks like a Nail.”

Can someone explain me [ X country] obsession with [ X celebration] and similar [location] rituals? Why do different cultures have their respective rituals? Why do some people prioritize certain values and act on them? Is having more reasons to celebrate life a bad or good thing?

That post is pure hysteria. First no one knows when Gabe is going to die, and even if he live very long he may step down due to old age still.

• also worrying so much about something that may happen 14 years later according to op is unnecessary and distorted thinking.
• why assume there is going to be a power vacuum? can’t he and his leadership make pans of succession?
• then believing a whole made-up story going down the rabbit hole of the worst case scenario is again unnecessary and distorted thinking. Is okay to think of worst case scenarios but to take them as if they were real is gifting ourselves anxiety for free.
• in any case, the mental exercise of thinking of some undesirable possibilities allow us to take precautions and prepare to the extend that is appropriate and reachable. Which would be the most efficient behavior that thwarts “actual fear” as OP writes it.

Font looks ugly, global scale broken, software crashes, games crashes. Fix than and then I will start using Wayland, because is so much “better” like you say.