This Will Make Your Head Hurt

The ultimate conundrum of reality

This will make your head hurt, but go ahead and read anyway:

If you believe that there are consequences of actions, then karma works at 100% accuracy/precision. If you don’t believe there are consequences of actions, then karma works at 0% accuracy. Meaning, everything is random and capricious.

Many people believe in the law of causality. But they view it as a cafeteria-style law. In some contexts, causality works; in some other contexts, it doesn’t work. When causality works, it is 100% in effect. When it doesn’t work, it is 0% in effect. Sort of like karma.

Now, the conundrum: if the law of cause-and-effect sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t work, that means that certain parts of reality are deterministic while other parts are not deterministic. The question is, what determines which part is deterministic and which part isn’t deterministic? If there is no such causal law that determines what is deterministic and what isn’t, that means that nothing is deterministic. On the other hand, if there is a deterministic part of reality that determines what is random and capricious and what isn’t, that means that everything is deterministic.

What’s your take on this?