I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face. . . Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.