What's more remarkable, is that the user created an account just to post this. Behavior like this on the internet always confuses me.
RE: Empathy. I've known a few people who's digital footprints look like this in real life. It's usually not empathy that's the issue (well, _primary_ issue). There's usually a cluster of things that have gone sideways that leads someone to becoming the sort of person who does this sort of thing.