Glad someone wrote and researched this image. It is, indeed, moving. I take issue, however, with the idea of "Gore alone does not arouse compassion or even understanding." I think this plays right into the idea of censorship as decency, something the West adopts without question (in "third-world" countries, it is common to see newspaper covers with photos of tragic massacres, sitting plainly to see at street level). The most moving thing I have seen so far has been a gory photo of a child in Gaza. Anyone who has experienced medicine, child birth, bodily trauma, or premature loss of life will have empathy. Not some intellectual exercise of empathy, but the more deep rooted evolutionary and hard wired kind Jeremy Rifkin has been talking about for the past 6 years. If we find excuses to detach from our senses, we will permit ourselves to limit how informed we are of the important minutia of the tragedy. Parenthetically, if we limit our informedness, we limit our ability to conjure insightful solutions.
Glad someone wrote and researched this image. It is, indeed, moving. I take issue, however, with the idea of "Gore alone does not arouse compassion or even understanding." I think this plays right into the idea of censorship as decency, something the West adopts without question (in "third-world" countries, it is common to see newspaper covers with photos of tragic massacres, sitting plainly to see at street level). The most moving thing I have seen so far has been a gory photo of a child in Gaza. Anyone who has experienced medicine, child birth, bodily trauma, or premature loss of life will have empathy. Not some intellectual exercise of empathy, but the more deep rooted evolutionary and hard wired kind Jeremy Rifkin has been talking about for the past 6 years. If we find excuses to detach from our senses, we will permit ourselves to limit how informed we are of the important minutia of the tragedy. Parenthetically, if we limit our informedness, we limit our ability to conjure insightful solutions.