What I'm saying is, we see the signals that something is wrong - wrong with our habits, wrong with our relationships, wrong with our spirits. We miss them because we are distracted. Or we push them out of our consciousness and try to plough on through. Anything to keep from turning. Anything to keep from changing.
Tragedy raises questions of faith, issues of justice.
Only, they aren't seeking the truth. They don't want an answer. They want confirmation of what they already believe. And probably they want to gossip about recent events. When disaster strikes someone else, we are tempted to take a godlike perspective of analysis, evaluation, and judgement.