Sure, but people lie, no? Even if just to themselves.

Again, Nahel's family were able to do communicate more effectively, even after just losing their son. But you really believe that a stranger hundreds of miles away was so incensed that the only way they could express their grief was by burning down a house or stealing a few smartphones?

Surely you have to pass people's actions through a basic logic filter before taking what they say at face value. Not because people are always logical, but because otherwise you have no means at all of differentiating lies from truth.