Skeptics sometimes tell me they don't believe in causation, like event A causing event B. Instead, they posit, a perhaps infinite chunk of space-time just exists eternally with events in a kind of sequence: event A is adjacent to event B, and we perceive that as "causation." ...

So, my question is this. Can you disbelieve in causation AND be interested in justice? Can you simultaneously hold the belief that nothing really caused, say, a galaxy to form, it just looks that way, and that people are personally responsible for their thoughts and deeds?

Do you know anyone who denies causation who actually lives as though he believes that? Anyone who looks at a horrible deed and explains that it only looks as though someone did that, when in reality it's just one event next to another one?

I personally don't know anyone who simultaneously disbelieves in both causation and justice. This is the real test of whether someone legitimately holds a belief. How consistent is it with how he or she lives life? And if it isn't consistent, then why not?