I think it's interesting to ask why people separate themselves from other people, I.e. people who are sick and possibly dieing, who need help. Something I read

I think it's interesting to ask why people separate themselves from other people, I.e. people who are sick and possibly dieing, who need help. Something I read on hn a while ago involved trying to place others who have had bad things happen to them in mental categories apart from oneself, to not have to deal with the possibility of bad things happening to yourself without any reason. E.g. a traffic accident, cancer etc. With traffic accidents, is very instructive to see that people will reflexively think that the persons involved did something wrong, this removes the need to accept that life isn't safe and that our behavior often has little influence at all on wether bad things happen to us. I think it's the same with healthcare. The defense mechanism is: they got sick so they must have lived unhealthily - granted, there are a lot of things your behavior can influence: cardiopulmonary disease, some forms of cancer but not all of the tragedies of health that can befall you are in any way under ones control. By sticking together we can shoulder the burden of the few that didn't have any blame on their fate.