robzo100 on 16 April 2012
You make an excellent point, to the OP. I would simply say, however, that you have merely pointed out two extremes. It is somewhere in the middle. In the middle between other things controlling our outcomes (randomness as you put it) and our decisions controlling our outcomes.
It is never in the polar extremes that outcomes are made, but you did highlight a flaw in the traditional view of things. You analysed the situation well even though I disagree with your overall premises on determinism.
