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  • #16
    Originally posted by Zkribbler
    For me: When kind people are destroyed because of their kindness.
    That's a good tragedy.


    Innocent people being brutalized.

    Or people who try with all their heart and might to change a situation but still never win in the end.
    We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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    • #17
      I thought for you it'd be a chick saying "no"

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      • #18


        That is always a tragedy.
        We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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        • #19
          When a character does all the wrong things for all the right reasons and it ends up destroying him. Londo Mollari from Babylon 5 exemplifies this perfectly. He made a deal with the devil for the good of his people and ended up destroying everything he loved.
          Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
          -Richard Dawkins

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