The reason people are getting "worked up" about what you've written is because you are being a bit self-righteous here, about what *you* would do, and how *you* would never jump. If these people had an easy means of escaping a burning building other than jumping, don't you think they would have done that? It's easy to be the armchair quarterback here, and say what you would have done, but you didn't have to face that horrible decision that day. Those people had two choices: 1) death by burning/smoke inhalation or 2) death by jumping. You say that you didn't see anybody on fire when they jumped, but did you know that most people who die in fires die due to smoke inhalation, not the burning itself?
No, you are assuming that saying I can't see myself willingly jumping out a window means that I'm putting down those who did. There were others who WERE there who DIDN'T jump out a window. Are you calling them self-righteous and saying they really should have jumped?
If these people had an easy means of escaping a burning building other than jumping, don't you think they would have done that?
Of course. But what about not so easy ways? Would you plunge into the flames in the HOPE of finding a way out, knowing that even if you did you would be burned and scarred for life? Can you understand someone making THAT choice?