I don’t think we humans like to imagine our lives as ‘random’. We need human lives to be narratives that make sense; so, if we can’t find causation, we just create it. Like, people get depression because they’re weak; or they get diabetes because they don’t eat well; or they have heart failure because they don’t exercise. All of that stuff is either totally inaccurate or overly simplistic, but we want every effect to have a cause; and when we can’t find that cause, we invent one.

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