I did look into the full context and nuance and wrote a fuller response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27927878. I'm not looking to pillory anyone.

Essentially, I argue that - perhaps counter-intuitively - the actually empathetic and good faith thing to do would've been to just file the lawsuit rather than post what he posted, despite the claim that they're doing all this out of empathy.

Maybe I'll change my stance on it in the future, but those are my current feelings on it. At the very least, it's indeed one of the worst and least self-aware ways anyone could handle this situation.