The guilt hound

Why it is that whenever someone messes up, even in fiction, I feel guilty? I'm watching "FlashForward," and the fictional mistakes of others make me feel sick with guilt, as if I am the one responsible.

It doesn't do much good to teach myself not to feel guilty about not being able to do everything for everybody if I'm just going to absorb guilt from fiction on TV.

Then again, maybe it's the political undertone in the "V" promos that is making me feel ill.