Jade Goody's dead

I don't have any understanding of why a person who didn't have some personal connection with her would think they felt any emotions for her.

Pretty troubling misanthropy.

I would, I suspect, bore you with an explanation of my own empathetic feelings towards not just other humans, but anything with warm blood and a couple of eyes towards the top if it's body, but let me offer you this story from a young man in a rain storm:

*"

well I don't know what's shaken me up more, wrapping it in camden or seeing a thread devoted to my wellbeing. Thanks guys, you really are very kind, I feel a little undeserving of it as I have manged to avoid breaking anything. In the end the verdict was basically "you'll live", which I'm very glad of, obviously. . . . .
Thanks for the concern guys, esp someone relatively fresh to the forum. Tynan, thanks for keeping track of things man. And thanks for the texts. It really is a community on here, I feel very good to have spent time with you.
"*

What the fuck is this . . . . Texts !? Concern !? Community !? what is this, some repudiation of social Darwinism ? :P - Why on earth would these people, with no personal connection to you, be genuinely concerned about your well being (god knows I received almost as many PM's as there were posts in that thread checking out if you were cool, what you had done to yourself, where you were taken, was you bike taken care of, do you need any help and so on).

It appears the people looking out for you had no personal connection, you were new to the forum, you were just another cyclist - and - oddly - that was enough for people, that is all they needed for their highly tuned and innate sense of empathy to kick in, no qualification, no history, just another one of us in trouble, no need for personal connection.

I shouldn't extrapolate your position any further than you might have intended it, but hopefully you might see how utterly indefensible it is to suggest that you need a personal connection with someone to feel any emotions for them.