People are going to have a lot of different responses, emotional and intellectual, to these stories, and they're going to discuss them here, and that's okay, that's good. An emotional response to someone's expressed thoughts isn't so much what we do here, though. I promise that nothing shared here is meant to make you feel dissed in any way. Disagreeing with the commenter and saying that you don't feel the comparison is a good one is fine, but please leave resentment at the door, as it can make discussion less open and comfortable.