The tragic in life

A post by Ray Anderson on Faith and theology gives this quote from Stanley Hauerwas.
“Marriage and family require time and energy that could be used to make the world better. To take the time to love one person rather than many, to have these children rather than helping the many in need, requires patience and a sense of the tragic”

Ray talks about the tragic as a thing that just can't be avoided. It has not been caused by the Fall of man after Eden, but simply by the fact that man is an embodied creature who makes choices and the result of many choices is a larger tragedy that one is not aware of at the time of the choice.