Would the same apply to someone who has no interest in The Smiler or Alton laughing about the accident?
The difference with that was the life changing injuries. I'm pretty sure had someone been badly burnt in this fire, no one would have made any jokes. In the same way I'm sure jokes would have been made had The Smiler incident not involved any people and had just been two empty carriages colliding. The idiocy and incompetence would have seemed almost funny.