I always tend to feel sorry for people who get hurt, even if it’s by their own hand.
Some people are more vulnerable than others, some people are not as smart as others, and some people actually do have an extreme belief in a particular faith, and for those people, they kind of don’t have a choice (because that is what faith is all about, believing in something no matter what without having a shred of evidence that it is correct or good or helpful. That’s why I don’t like faith).
So yes, I do feel sorry for these people that lost everything, simply because they lost everything. I’m not saying that they weren’t responsible for their loss. I don’t think I feel any less sorry for them than people who have lost everything due to natural disasters. There’s probably plenty of stupid, awful, lying, cheating, philandering people who have lost everything in natural disasters, but we don’t go around asking those people how awful or deserving they are, we just try to help, however we can.
Unfortunately, if you lose everything due to your own hand, you don’t get to partake of FEMA or the Red Cross or any of those kinds of organizations, because they aren’t set up for that.
I try to look at these folks who lost everything due to this end of the world malarkey in the same way that I look at senior citizens who get scammed out of their money by huxters over the phone. Yes, it is by their own hand, but it is also because they were extremely vulnerable in the first place, for whatever reason. All of the losses are just sad.