What a pointless analogy!thenexttodie said:*sigh* I think the word "arbitrary" might not mean what you think it means. Look it up. Then consider the following example
I have 2 sons, Jake and Dave. I tell Jake to trim the hedges and tell Dave to mow the lawn. I had no specific reason to assign the lawn mowing to Dave, nor the hedge trimming to Jake. Yet they obeyed me. Why? Was this wrong?
You made arbitrary choices of sons for tasks, and your sons made arbitrary decisions to do as you asked. Any person could have made different choices as there was no law requiring anyone to do anything in any particular way, nor at all.