We can honor our common humanity while minimizing the tragic differences between us by bringing girls together to seek empowerment as one.
Surikov, who viewed history as deeply tragic, knew well the difference between the actual event and its emotional or empirical reality.
Perhaps the most obvious difference between tragic compassion and Mother Teresa's is the fact that the latter involves the proposition the sufferer is a type (brother, sister, beloved) of Christ.
Laughter at once acknowledges and expresses (or performs, since it is "all that remains physical in the flash of thought") the idea that the absurdity of the human condition is not relative - the product, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, of social and cultural difference - but absolute.
But when I find myself explaining the difference between a tragic mistake and a war crime against humanity, I can barely hold it together.
"But Jon shining such a big, bright spotlight on Washington's potentially tragic failure to put aside differences and get this done for America was, without a doubt, one of the biggest factors that led to the final agreement".
"Jon shining such a big, bright spotlight on Washington's potentially tragic failure to put aside differences and get this done for America was, without a doubt, one of the biggest factors that led to the final agreement," was how New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who had supported the bill, put it.
That was the difference; that was the tragic legacy of those two weeks 50 years ago.
Finally, because we see ourselves in him, the tragic villain commands our sympathy (indeed, the difference between the tragic and the melodramatic villain is quite precisely that).
