[Louis Foxwell]

Causality is simply not a universal requirement,

I am confounded. 'Splain, please.

[general_re]

I mean that there is no requirement that all events have some sort of antecedent. There is no logical reason that all effects must have causes, and indeed it's impossible to prove that effects must necessarily have causes. And, in fact, there are instances where there are completely uncaused events, such as the radioactive decay of an atom I talked about before.

Therefore, to suggest that uncaused causes are somehow illogical or irrational has a little problem with empirical falsification - in fact, uncaused causes happen all the time. We don't usually see them in our everyday lives, which is what makes the concept rather foreign to us, but the phenomenon is real and it really exists.