logic is cause and effect

Rules and definitionsYou neglected to establish any set of rules, therefore I'll assume you favor a more open style of debate. However, I'm afraid I must insist you refrain from introducing new arguments in your closing argument. Instead, please respond to my arguments or reinforce previously stated ones.Your opening statement is highly vague, so I'm going to assume those were not statements of definition but rather statements of opinion towit: we both will proceed without any defined definitions, as I cannot force you to accept any I assert.What is logic?Broadly construed, logic is a fundamental set of rules which things or events in this universe must follow. The statement "A=A" is a logical statement, for example. There is no time in which A will not be precisely equal to A. These statements can get more complex: "If some A's are B's, all B's are A's, and some B's are C's, then it follows that some C's are A's".My opponent has misunderstood what logic actually is. I suspect what he thinks is logic is actually another thing called causality.Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org...What is causality?Causality (or cause and effect) is the concept that an effect follows an event. If you do thing A then thing B will occur. Causality can either be construed as "A human explanation for why things happen" or as "A rule followed in this universe by which an effect is connected to an event"Yet again though, my opponent's statements do not reflect what causality is. If his statements were not causality related, and not logic related, what are they? He is making If/Ought statements, but leaving out the if and only stating the ought.Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org...What are If/Ought statements?Essentially, everything which says something ought to be this way or someone ought to do something is an if/ought statement. All oughts, then, require an if.E.g.:We ought to go to the movies IF we want to have a good time.You ought not kill your father IF you don't want the consequences of that to happen.You oughtn't drink soda IF you want healthy teeth.Notice two things about If/Ought statements:First, they require agency- saying a rock ought to do something doesn't make any sense because the rock has no ability to chose.Second, they all rely on causality. You ought to do action A if you want result B BECAUSE action A causes action B.Going over my opponent's statements:"cause=random+specified"I am not sure I am understanding this right because it is self contradictory. Randomness and specificity are opposites. "(a)+(-a)=0" is a logical statement. So far as I can tell, my opponent has stated the illogical unless it can be demonstrated that whatever represents "cause" is always equal to 0."poison=unhealty"This isn't a logical statement, and it isn't really a statement of fact either, since healthy things can become poisonous things if dosages are altered. This is a tangential medical point, so I'll stipulate that value "poison" is deleterious to human life."logical=dont drink poisonous things to stay healthy""illogical=drink poisonous things to stay healthy"These are not logical statements. They are If/Ought statements. "If you want to stay healthy then you oughtn't drink poison" would be the proper format. You could also turn it into a statement of naturalistic causality: "Poison causes things to be unhealthy" but as I mentioned before, this isn't entirely true. The statement "Poison causes things to be healthy" would be a kind-of-false statement of causality- NOT a logical statement."logic is true"I'm not even going to try to unpack this because it is an epistemological statement and it would take WAY to long to go over, so I'll stipulate that it's true." logic is absolute"I'm not sure what is meant by this, but I think I can agree to this. Logic is absolute in that it can produce absolute true/false values. Logic is also absolute in the sense that, so far as I can discern, all of reality must follow its dictates."reality is logic"No. Logic is part of reality. A rock is not logic. A rock is a vast collection of subatomic particles which, although bound by logic, are not constructed of logic. Logic is to reality as a core operating system process is to a computer.In sum.:Logic and causality separate elements in our universe. If/ought statements are dependent on causal relationships, not logical relationships.