Poetic Justice - usually that's an eye-for-an-eye level of events. The oil spill - this is Irony. The thing that we centered our lives and political platforms around becomes the very bane of our existence and the root of death for many (wildlife, future tolls).
Consider, though, that the spill will likely not just effect the US alone - thus - what is the "justice" in the possible effect on world-wide people who had no hand in the production, demand and riches of oil? If only the bad were punished with deluges of oil and the good blessed with pristine beaches poetic justice would be had - but that's hardly the case.
The United States with 5% of the global population, which uses 25% of the global production of petroleum, becomes tarred with petroleum; that is poetic justice!
I don't think God reads Wiki. I also don't think these tragic events wrecked us. We just get stronger.
Crude Poetic Justice?
Wikipedia informs me that “poetic justice” is a notion that fictional literature takes on as a cultural demand whereby literary outcomes must support moral standards by justifying in the end the virtuous behavior of the good guy and punishing the bad behavior of the bad guy. Furthermore logic is also maintained.
How can our (American) present troubles be considered as poetic justice?
Let us just examine the great human manufactured catastrophes visited upon us in the last few years; the Great Crude Oil Smear, the deadliest mine disaster in three decades, the greatest financial catastrophe since the Great Depression, and the looming global climate change induced by human activity.
The common element in all of these catastrophes is our three decade guiding premise that Government is the problem while Free Market forces are the solution.
Poetic Justice results because the American people are punished, with a great crude oil smear, by the logic of their commitment to the free market and their dark suspicion of government regulation.
Perhaps God is a practical joker!
I think your analogy falls flat, because I can't see that anyone, like a West Virgina coal miner or a Mississippi offshore oil worker, who's just trying to make an honest living deserves to end up dead.
how dare you bring realism into a thread like this, everyone knows coporations are eeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvviiiiiiiiiiilllllllllllll
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