Do you go to work simply because you feel like it, for no particular reason? Do you tie your shoes because you feel like it?
This mountain exists. It exists because the techtonic plates are moving into each other, forcing rock upward into a mound.
Why did Persephone free the key maker? Because of the lipstick the Merovingian was still wearing.
Cause and effect.
If there were no reasons for things happening then they wouldn’t happen. There would be no reason. I think the issue is that people need to or want to know what the reason is. Curiosity I suppose.
Try to come up with something that can’t fit this model:
Why did X happen?
Because of Y
If Y = NULL then you’ve got a pickle. That would violate the 3rd law of Newtonian mechanics; and also it would violate the law of conservation of energy/mass/mass-energy.
The first step is to accept that there is a Y. Then you have to figure out what it is.
Then wouldnt you reach a point when there is no more why, if not it would go in a circle eventually and why something is would be the same reason it is, x would = x
The water i just drank came out of a water bottle which was shipped and packaged by Zephyrhills, who purchased the material from a plastic company, who processed fossil fuels that they got from deep underground deposits left millions of years ago by dead plants and animals, whose atoms came from other plants and animals, whose atoms came from other plants and animals, whose atoms came from other plants and animals, whose atoms came from other plants and animals, … whose atoms came from pre-life earth and space metals, whose atoms came from interstellar chaoses, whose atoms came from (supposedly) an expansion of space and time from the “big bang”, whose atoms came from a place that scientists are trying to figure out.
I think “cause” is a more practical word to use in this regard. “Reason” implies conscious intervention by a separate entity. The dominoes in a domino track (aside from the first one) don’t fall over for any particular reason per-se, but the falls sure as shit have a cause.