This was a good, albeit sobering, read.

Advice to other commenters here on HN. Before clicking 'add comment', ask yourself:

- If I post from a non-empathetic stance, to what extent is my lack of empathy a strategy to avoid experiencing discomfort?

- If I post from a contradicting or fact-checking stance, to what extent is my skepticism motivated by a desire to feel safer in the world?

- If I post from a relativising or contextualizing stance, to what extent is my reframing driven by the fear that it could happen to me?

You don't have to ask yourself any of these things; but they are hard-won tools I've gained through a lot of work on myself, and they have been of benefit to me. May they be of benefit to you as well.