Oh, you surely don't have to apologize, after all I understood what the post was going to be about and I read it willfully :) It's not a big deal, it's just that these type of things cause some primal reaction in me. But I don't see it as a bad thing necessarily. Having read a story like that and being exposed to this type of feeling might some day be the difference between me handling a real life incident properly instead of poorly.
And it was a well-written and engaging story, that fact that it caused reaction in me means that it was engaging and that's surely a good thing! :)
Thanks, Dave. I have similar reactions when I observe pain.