Of Questions...

And having broken the first and second cardinal principles, he now stood on the cusp of breaking the third one. It was always going to come to this. And sometimes he just wished a few things were simpler, straightforward and old fashioned. Why was this resistance always present? Why not just let go and roll down the slope like everyone else, if it were anyway to come to that. What invisible string holds him and ties him down to where it began? Why was there this perpetual worry about having to stay on the right side of an increasingly blurred boundary?

Theory of agnostic cause

The theory of agnostic causes states that an effect is not latent in the cause.