Tragedies

Tragedy is not moral. It's amoral. It contains no component of morality. Morality appeals and applies to our sense of justice/injustice. When something 'unjust' has been done, it violates, or probably violates a moral code. Immorality seems to contains elements of commission; acts against someone or something.

Tragedy is: Falling down the stairs; Coincidence, opening your car door at the wrong moment into traffic; Cancer; Accidents.

Tragedy sometime contains elements of omission, often elements of comedy. (future post: Comedy. the sense of irony that the universe has aligned itself against us. The roll of the dice comes up snake eyes, we find a pattern and assume the universe is against us. The real ironic comedy of course is that the universe is cold and indifferent to our needs and wants. Give the sky the finger, shake your fist. The sky looks on, forever unimpressed).

Americans have a slippery grasp of tragedy vs morality. This is why we sue everyone, especially Doctors, for anything. We want someone to blame. We want to absolve ourselves from the realization that the world is cold, and indifferent to our needs. We have this sense justice', that confuses our egocentric belief that everything should always be a Hollywood happy end the way we want it to. When it doesn't it is injustice or negligence (not the same thing, another thing we confuse).

Hegel wrote that tragedy is the collision of right with right. There is tragedy when conditions or decisions are at irreconcilable differences. For then whatever happens, or whatever we decide has some component of wrong in it. Even so, tragedy has nothing to do with morality or justice.

Tragedy: it's much more personal than morality, but still feels like injustice.