I respect your courteous and wise response … I believe the entire function of language snd literature poetry, or stories, is firstly the writer empathises. and explores some aspect of the human condition - and then the wider society expands their understanding through their reading .
Yesterday I met a close friend who described all the travails they as a family went through because a very distant relative they rarely saw, died in his flat all alone and his body was not discovered for a few weeks as he was reclusive . He weighed the equivalent of three big men - about 48 stones - that would be five of me … and I wonder what happened? He ate himself to death to assuage feelings of loneliness? Although I never met him the awfulness of his situation is on my mind … this happens in a so called civilised society ? He was only 58 ….