Смешное
"Greek tragedy was rooted in the empirical observation that there is no relationship between justice and suffering. Tragedy confronts us with our frailties and limits and the disastrous consequences of trying to exceed them. It advances a counter-intuitive thesis: that efforts to limit suffering through the accumulation of knowledge or power might invite more suffering..."

via Wikipedia
Richard Ned Lebow, The Tragic vision of Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 20.