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Do you note the difference between the Greek Tragedies and things like the Scott Peterson case? It is fiction versus reality. The people the tragedy befell are alive and more than likely having their suffering made worse by having to learn about gory autopsy details and the whatnot.

There really is nothing to support the notion that much of the Greek tragedies were based on the suffering of contemporarily living people.

To make real human suffering worse is clearly immoral.

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I agree that it is immoral, but isnt there something to base the notion on that most great writers ie Shakespeare based their tradegies on real events?