Dan,

An excellent point. Above I listed the main reasons why the Greek riots came to be but I ommited some that most of us take for granded:

1. “Long-term Two-Party Democracy”: This is the post modern western type of democracy where two main parties with almost identical policies and behaviour in government. These parties succeed each other in government every 4 or 8 years, ALWAYS blaiming the previous administration for problems, at the same time following a well-planned agenda of economic evolution towards complete globalization however good or bad for the people. It has to be long term because people are inherently optimistic and believe the lies for quite a while.

2. “Enough democracy”. Again in quotes. This is a simple concept, enough democracy to consider the police beating someone to a pulp to be a punishable crime. Also, enough democracy to allow people to demonstrate peacefully.

In addition, it is easy to make this associational falacy of economic prospect and happiness. A country may be poor but their people may be happy enough even though they themselves are poor. A poor factory worker from Brazil or Russia may be happy because he is doing as well as he expects. A person in the France with 3 degrees that cannot find a job and works part time as a waiter just to survive with no future improvement is much more possible to react. Also, it helps if you haven’t got anything to lose.

So to answer your question, the murderer’s brother is not out committing murder because his world view is different.