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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Its a text book tragedy in that the driver got off uninjured, the passenger bore the brunt of driver stupidity.
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I have my own soapbox to jump on after reading this thread, and it is the unforgivable misuse of the word "tragedy" by all concerned. A tragedy requires hubris on the part of the tragic protagonist who inevitably meets a terrible fate as a consequence of said hubris.
This was not a tragedy, textbook or otherwise. A car accident is never a tragedy. For a car accident to have been a tragedy, the driver would have to have woken up that morning and said something like, "I am the greatest driver ever to have driven the Earth! When I am in my car, I am invincible. Why, not even Hermes could cause me to crash my car!" I am assuming this did not occur.
Every time something like this happens people start lobbing the term "tragic" around and it seems an inappropriate time to talk about diction so I always just let it go. Well, NO MORE! A stand must be taken! As Jean-luc would say, the line must be drawn here! This far, and no farther! I am making my stand!