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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
None of that excludes it from being tragic.
If your brother died, it would have been considered a tragedy I'm sure by many. Not by you, you would have slapped your mother, telling her what an emotional fool she was being. But by everyone else, the few non-Robot people left on Earth
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I suppose this is just a semantic argument? Maybe it comes across as me being really cold. That obviously was not the intention. I view tragedy as being inherent in circumstances that were unavoidable or that did not have inevitable consequences. So while I can call this particular situation miserable or horrible or gut-wrenching, I would definitely not call it tragic. Doesn't mean that I am a robot.