The thread doesn't need recovered. If nothing in the story or thread interests you, that's totally fine. You aren't required to participate. The problem here i

The thread doesn't need recovered. If nothing in the story or thread interests you, that's totally fine. You aren't required to participate. The problem here is that you think other people should be similarly disinterested, and if we aren't, we're "frothing at the mouth". You have shifted the conversation under your comment from anything useful to merely making potential commenters defend themselves from your unprovoked rudeness (if it was provoked, your original comment would have been a reply rather than a top level comment I assume). I believe nefitty's point is that it is ok to be worried about more than one thing, and it appears that either you've missed that point or you disagree with it (I can't tell which). I think that point is a valid refutation of the comment. To be more specific, if you're like me and feel that multiple things can simultaneously be bad (even when they are related and comparable), "this isn't a big deal. We kill off patients all the time." is specifically where your comment becomes tone-deaf and even flat out incorrect. Many of us think death is a big deal, and it doesn't have to be a maximal element of some sort of partially ordered set of badness for us to think that.