Pride Goeth Before the Fall
May 16, 2010
The word “tragedy,” properly employed, denotes a particular genre of drama or literature that features a main character defined by one dictionary as a person “impelled by moral weakness or psychological maladjustment” — or hubris — “exaggerated pride or self-confidence.”
So I find it interesting that a Detroit police chief calls the shooting of seven-year-old Aiyana Jones by a SWAT team member “a tragedy of unspeakable magnitude to Aiyana’s parents.”
So Aiyana’s parents are the ones “impelled by moral weakness or psychological maladjustment…and exaggerated pride or self-confidence”?
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