It makes me feel a little bit nauseous when I think of the many hours I myself have spent, passed out cold in a travel coma, while riding on a bus. If nothing else, I hope that this tragedy convinces travellers to be more mindful of their surroundings at all times. Oftentimes, the “safest” places can be the most dangerous. Just look at all the innocent children who have died in their own homes, at the hands of the very people who are supposed to love and protect them.

With respect to Li’s “sentencing,” this is just another example of the Canadian Justice system being totally and completely f*cked. Do the crime, do the time — unless you’re Canadian!

* measures which, from what I can tell, do more to inconvenience travellers than to prevent terrorism

But scientifically, I wanna dissect this guy. If simple schizophrenia can cause this, then you don’t even have to be evil. Let’s say that you see a guy sitting on a park bench molesting a child. You’re gonna kick his ass if you can. I’d go so far as to say that you have a moral obligation to attack him no matter what the law says.

Turns out you were hallucinating and the kid was totally imaginary, but you killed the guy. What now? I’ve seen a guy walking down the sidewalk, immersed in a knock-down drag-out brawl with people who weren’t there.

If that sort of thing can actually happen to people, where they apply perfectly normal reasoning to situations that aren’t actually going on, we need to figure out how the hell that works and cure it.