That logic must now be abandoned, because if it is not, more tragedies will occur that can only strengthen Hamas and Israel's other enemies in the region, destabilize moderates in both camps and deepen Israel's political isolation.
How many more tragedies will we accept before we stand up and fight for a better world?
How many more tragedies will we have to endure before we acknowledge as a nation that racism is alive and well, and entirely out of alignment with the fact of our oneness?
There will be more wars; there'll be more tragedies; there'll be more changes in our society.
They say that to prevent more tragedies Foxconn will not pay compensation beyond its legal obligations.
The question now is whether this latest and still more dreadful Bogside tragedy will set in train such another series of profound events.
Once there are self-driving cars and self-flying planes, Hawkins says, "people will get over it". He thinks that events like this aviation tragedy will lead people, "more and more to accept this kind of automated control". If the software becomes good enough, there will be no need to control it from the ground at all.
Using the former approach, 2016 will produce more tragedy in Syria and Yemen, an uninterrupted stream of refugees into Europe, another iteration of the Grexit crisis, deepening drought in the Chinese east and American west, and further hacking misadventure on both state and corporate levels.
So there will be more tragedies, and each one will confront Australians with the terrible and ever more insistent question of how, in some indefinable way, they have become complicit in such horror.
However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus no more opera.
