Multiple Choices

What is ice? You will say it is frozen water.
Suppose I say it is rock? Do you think I am wrong?
The wind sculpts ice and the Sun melts it. It however can be as hard as rock. Ice in the Alps demonstrates this fact. Soft freshly falling snow builds up shelves of ice over the time and the process may go on for millennia. Each layer of snow freshly falling at any given time compacts what has gone before by expelling air trapped in layers accumulated earlier. The character of water is not what the ice exhibits and it calls on air and the gravity to give the ice its rock hardness. Thus an answer one may give to explain the nature of ice does not state the full facts.
Coming back to the my premise at the outset, man is both cause and effect. Only that he is not both at the same time.
benny