[Theophilus]

People have such an emotional hatred of the concept of randomness

If this were true, then why do so many people gamble?

I believe randomness is not a concept at all but an excuse for uncertainty and fallibility. Many extend an irrational hatred of God to an irrational hatred for all causality.

[Ichneumon]

[People have such an emotional hatred of the concept of randomness]

If this were true, then why do so many people gamble?

Because they believe in something called "luck" that will allow *them* to beat the inexorable randomness. Oddly enough, such people win/lose at the same rate as everyone else.