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EducatorBig6648 t1_j4fz0dz wrote

Reply to comment by bronzelifematter in Life can’t be reduced to a rulebook. But committing to certain moral principles can help us navigate life better. by IAI_Admin

That there are no "rules" (which I agree with) doesn't mean anything is "random". What is "random" and "chaos" except our inability to know how the thrown dice will land because we don't have a magical outside perspective (to see the Big Bang leading into our parents meeting leading into what whe had for breakfast yesterday leading into what we'll have for breakfast tomorrow leading into how we die of a heart attack in 29 years, two months, five days, eleven hours and twenty-six minutes)?

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bronzelifematter t1_j4jdp0w wrote

You could be living a healthy life style, eating balanced diet, exercise everyday, and one day you are walking down the road, maybe you are 35 years old with 2 little kids, a boy and a girl walking by yourside, and some drunk teen who have been out partying all night swerve his new sports car his daddy bought him into you and your family killing all of you, ending your bloodline forever despite all the effort you have made to built your life into a perfect one.

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EducatorBig6648 t1_j4komfo wrote

There's quite a few problems with that: "Perfection" and "imperfection" are two sides of the same myth. Also (just for context) I am a 42 year old virgin with no interest in bloodline or raising a family of my own, in other words your clear attraction to it is not universal. And (this is just technical nitpicking) you forgot to add that I'm a woman or there'd be no woman carrying my third child or that I had not "put some swimmers on ice" in one way or other in order for your "ending your bloodline forever" to be true.

But to answer you: Yes, if that were the case that would be how this universe plays out, just like how every horrible detail of WWI and WWII played out. In short, this is the universe that begin with a particular Big Bang (or however it all began) and everything leading up to the drunk teen swerving and everything after it are the consequences. My life and your life (however they will play out) are not random, the future is the future of that Big Bang. We cannot know the future (kind of like Romeo and Juliet cannot rewrite the pages in order to know in the first act that they die in the third act) but nothing in the future is random just like nothing in the past is. There's no Choose-Your-Adventure to Romeo and Juliet.

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