tragedy

The tragedy is that in their desperation to see if something is solid, the anxiously attached may end up entirely unnecessarily shaking it to pieces.

Many of these squabbles end in tragedy, as the poor chick is trampled to death.

To sharks this is a tragedy — a tragedy of the commons.

The tragedy of this is that we're rehashing questions that were already answered, looking backwards when we should be looking forwards, because we have more important questions to answer today.

And if not, what else can we do to protect the commons from the tragedy that's unfolding?

Now, I suspect that we agree if you rob one child of their potential, that's a tragedy.