1. If you attempt to intervene you put your own life at risk/forfeit.
2. Intervention would be ineffectual in almost every conceivable case.
3. Documenting the event may have a positive ethical outcome at a later date.
Not much of a choice really.
Under what circumstances would you torture another person?
If you responded 'none', you probably haven't thought about it carefully
enough.
It becomes one of those 'who would you throw out of the lifeboat' exercises.
Andrew Fildes
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www.soultheft.com
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On 17/02/2013, at 9:37 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
> This is the thing about being a hardcore photojournalist that I could never
> handle. Theoretically, when you see something horrific happening, you are
> supposed to suppress the normal human urge to help another human being and
> instead take photos to document the event. In my mind, that's ethically
> wrong. If you see someone about to get brutalized or murdered, how can you
> just stand there and take photos when you could potentially save another
> life?
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