Local news reports here in Sonoma County tell us that many people who lost their homes to the October fires are upset that the fire tourist “looky-loos” now descending on the rubble of their streets are adding further insult to the grievous injury they have already suffered. This is an understandable response, and I feel for them. But it seems to me there is much more to this phenomenon than mere voyeurism, so I would like to offer another perspective. I do so as someone who did not lose his own home but, like most all residents of this area,…