OK, here’s a small episode.
A very small episode about a photographer who killed himself.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for this picture
, about a vulture and a starving child.
He didn’t save the child. Instead, he just took the picture.
Later, he committed suicide.
Very human. Very human, I gotta say.
Check this Oxfam ’s page
.
You’ll learn that there’s a major food crisis in East Africa.
I swear to God, if I had been him, I wouldn’t have taken a picture in that situation.
That’s DEFINITELY NOT a situation you are supposed to be taking a fucking picture.
As a human being, I would’ve helped the child. Definitely.
I just can’t let a child starve to death in front of me.
Would you feel that way too?
In fact, now in this world, there’s millions of kids like him (or maybe her), who are at risk of starvation.
They are not in front of you.
No one will blame you if you just ignore them.
Would you give a damn and extend a helping hand to them in any way?
Or would you just remain silent and pretend not to know anything about the plight of those kids?
Just imagine it was you.
Yeah, it was you who were too hungry to move, with a vulture watching you nearby.
Then suddenly, a photographer shows up.
You think, “THANKS GOD !! I AM SAVED !”
But he begins to take your picture.
“DAMN !! WHAT THE FUCK IS HE DOING ??” you think.
You want to say something to him, like “Fuck off!”
but you are too emaciated to say anything.
Finally, you die…
How can you accept this kind of ending??
Koichi Ushioda