From this understandable concern with the feelings of people involved in tragedies, it has proved a short step to the argument advanced by a reader protesting against the serialisation of Gordon Burns's book about Frederick and Rosemary West in the Guardian on the grounds of the 'suffering, despair and pain involved in the subject matter', not for the relatives of West's victims, but for everyone.
And even if the separatists' guilt in the tragedy is never conclusively proven, a certain logical connection becomes evident.
So far, the doomsayers have been proved wrong: tragedy has been averted through better technologies, the invention of artificial fertilisers, improved medicines and other rescuing remedies.
The injustice of Bush v. Gore was obvious at the time; its sequel has proved it to be a tragedy.
Newcomers Modern Family and Cougar Town drew solid numbers for ABC, a network where comedy has proved tragedy in recent years.
The first time indeed proved to be tragedy, for Iraqis, Afghanis, U.S. soldiers and their families, and for Americans blown up by the Great Recession; now the second occurs as farce.
The Guardian called it "high-concept public atonement… brutally unsparing" and concluded: "The show proves there's tragedy at the core of French's amiable, roly-poly persona".
Did dead beloved hold their arms out and welcome you to their dead place?" The show proves there's tragedy at the core of French's amiable, roly-poly persona; yet the place she finds herself in now appears to be a good one – happily remarried to a man with no showbiz connections and with two of her genie wishes left.
Although the daily New York experience may feel like one of isolation amongst crowds, any true New Yorker will tell you that when it matters most, this city comes together in larger numbers than any other community on the planet as proven after the tragedy of 9/11.
