[wheelie_boy]

A lot of people need to have control of their lives.

One manifestation of this is when they look at people that have bad things happening to them, they come up with a list of how they can avoid that thing happening to them.

Sometimes those things are very reasonable - I'll avoid these dangerous behaviors, I'll engage in these good behaviors, I'll avoid those areas, etc. But sometimes the threats are not the kind that you can really avoid. Sometimes people respond by blaming the afflicted with having poor intrinsic attributes, as opposed to their own superior attributes. Sometimes people respond by simply disbelieving the afflicted, discounting evidence that they would have considered otherwise. Because it is simply too taxing to really consider the risk.

I don't know you from Adam, I have no idea if that's what's motivating you, but what you said reminds me of what other people say in that situation.