Don't Believe that Fall is Fragile. It's not.
Growing up, Growing old.
Each day I read the news. Each day it makes me want to cry.
- US levies now sanctions against Iran
- Myanmar's detained Suu Kyi has talkes with junta
- Turkeys patience with PKK running out
- Cracks in coalition as Afghanistan campaign drags on
- Microsoft grabs a small piece of Facebook
- US shuttle Discovery links up with Space station
- Hep A scare hits burger giant
- Darfur rebel groups kidnaps foreign oil workers
- Bush voews to stay the course on US policy toward Cuba
- Islamist militants kill 21 in NW Pakistan blast
- South Korean spices admit kidnapping ex-president
- Arroyo pardons former president Joseph Estrada
- Global Warming: Let's relay on science instead o Hysteria
- Barak approves limiting Isreals Gaza power supply
- LEvin: time-limited funding best hope to change US war policy
- Abbas and Olmert to meet again to try to bridge gaps
- Milityar: Sri Lankan troops kill 3 rebels in fighting in the north
- Photographs said to show Israeli traget inside Syria
Todays top headlines:
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Very High |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | High |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Very Low |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Low |
| Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very High |
| Level 7 (Violent) | High |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Moderate |
| Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) | Low |
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
Is it censorship to have a policy on the images that can be posted in a blog?
Should Mindsayers have a right to have graphic, (porn or distrubing) imagery removed from other peoples blogs? Should Mindsay have a policy regarding the images that are placed on individual blogs? Or Do you think that doing that is going to far?
Is a person's right to free expression and speech worth anothers right to proctection from mental and emotional trauma due to graphic photos?
I am not for censorship, however there are things that I believe go to far, and have no place in certian forums of presentation. It is one thing to have graphic images that are representative of the media, it is another entirely to bombard someone with images that are distrubing and the only recourse is the back button. The back button is to late sometimes for what you expose someone to. People argue that if you don't like the things they post don't come to their blog. Well thats all find and dandy however, you have to see what you dont "like" to know you don't like it. Your choice is taken away the second you click on the link and are brought to that page.
The back button will not remove the images from your mind, and nothing will erase them. Images can leave scars. Yet should we want to take away the right to use shocking images for the impact they have to bring about realization in the reality of what we as indivudals believe is horrific? Some people believe abortion is murder, that its horrific and deserves to have images published just as a gencoide or a war crime picture makes its way into the news papers, and other media outlets. Yet I have to ask myself, is any of it worth it? Are words that useless that mentally branding images into potential viewers heads is the only way to express yourself, your opinion and to exercise debate or true understanding?
I am a firm believer in media representation. I understand as a photographer the need for images to go along with words as better discriptors, but for the life of me I cannot understand the use of some images.
Then there are those images that are illegally obtained, yet justified by their end result. Fear, intimidation, agression and exteremism to get a point across. Once you take that step and cross that line there is no accepting what you do as face value fact. To "reshoot" an image for impact is to falsifiy it. To steal an image is to steal an image. To illegally take photographs of things you do not have the right to photograph is a crime, esp if its on private or government property. So that means it is illegal to go into a hosptial facility, sneak through their garbage to find a first trimester sack of a baby, and then deface that child by photographing it for your own alterior motives. Agends. Media. Proof. All this force feeding has not changed the minds of the world.
Sometimes the images are educational, they bring about awareness to things we do not know, or we hide behind and pretend they do not exist. However, repeating multiple graphic images is not only hurtful, and distasteful its unnecessary.
People must change for themselves. Thus education, understanding and overall growth, not through aggressive push tactics that force them into situations that are unhealthy and mentally destructive.
If you have ever looked as some of these images and have not been negativly affected I am glad for you. I for one know that these images have brought me nothing but sadness, anger and emotional anexity. My mind remains unchanged on my original opinions though, thus all the images did was add to a burden of society and the miscarriages of justice and disrespect that one can have for another.
Today while flicking though Mindsay I came across some shocking images posted on a controversial blog topic. I am not pointing fingers and any particular person or group of people however I want to state that just because a photo is available on the internet does not mean that that photo is there legally, and does not mean that you have the right to reproduce it in any way whatsoever.
The photos I am refering to are of dead fetus/babies.
These photographs are of someones children, and the most likly senerio is that you've just used the most painful moment in someones life as a way to express an opinion. Without their permission, and in my opinion are violating their right to privacy.
I was greatly distrubed to see these photos. I am not saying that people should not discuss abortion, however when a person uses shock and exteremism to get their point across for impact without the consideration of whom they might be affecting, whom might see those photographs and their psychological impact is rather disgusting and if nothing else a violation of those whom have suffered miscarriages and those whom have had abortions. Although you might not like it people whom have abortions for medial, physical, emotional or mental reasons may feel deep pain at having had an abortion, not to say that they regret it, but they live with their decision daily. It is something you do not forget.
Their choices, are not for your advantage as leverage in a controversial battle over whether they are a murder or not. OR whether abotion is murder. Those images were likly classified for medical documents and prehaps research. Not for reproduction.
After seeing these images I did a google search and found that most of them came from a group of sites:
Firstly I want to say I do no recommend going to these sites, or looking at the pictures contained as they are graphic, distrubing, and may be upsetting.
http://ourchurch-graphics.com/
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/
This is all I have to say on the subject.
