Here's an experiment in random for you BADecker, grab a set of Lego blocks, as many shapes, colours and sizes as you can and place them in front of you. Now close your eyes and grab any two pieces and join them together with your eyes still shut. With your eyes still closed, feel around and grab another piece and join it to the connected pieces, repeat as many times as you feel like.
What is the result? Could you have predicted the outcome of colour and shape even though you were the direct cause?
While there is probably a limit to the number of cause and effect actions that caused the Legos to lie in the exact places that they exist it, that number is fantastically great... way beyond understanding by mankind.
You should be in politics with question side stepping skills like this.
Actually, the question sidesteps itself. There is no random. There is only inability to observe cause and effect in detail. The question is not a real question. At best, it is a play question.
Even if I am asked a question, where is the requirement that I answer it? How much less when the question is as nonsensical as the one asked?
How does "Could you have predicted the outcome of colour and shape even though you were the direct cause?" sidestep itself? Seems pretty straight forward to me.
Not a real question! What does that even mean
Even a rhetorical question is still a real question.I agree, there is no binding arrangement that forces you to answer anything asked of you, but given that you went to the trouble to reply it would make sense to at least try and answer rather than dance around it.