In all of Euripides' plays, then, the characters are finally acquitted because they cannot know how to act. If he is saying anything, Euripides is saying that men must be tolerant and understanding of each other, because all men suffer and there is no real meaning to suffering in an irrational world. Indeed, Aristotle was right when he called Euripides the most tragic of poets. Euripides was the most tragic because he not only saw that the basic condition of life was defeat, but also because he could not accept the traditional form of tragedy, which, in aesthetic terms at least, was able to conquer the tragic nature of man's existence, and thereby provide 'a temporary victory over, and a temporary affirmation of, that absurd condition in which 'the destinies of all human beings are of equal futility.'