I was reacting to the suggestion that people will only react to this out of misplaced "confirmation bias." Your statement was qualified as "it's not _necessarily_ bad."

The suggestion is that a negative or useless human emotion may, in this case, be incidentally useful.

My suggestion is that it is not at all useless or negative, and due to the safety factors involved, this is more due to survival bias than confirmation bias.

I sort of felt you were punching down into the public crowd gathered around this issue, and I took some umbrage with that.