To show or not to show- the pictures of pain and cruelty?

A question which will be discussed in the papers and other media from time to time without a real result  or the fact that something changed. 

We all want information from all media. We all have the thirst to see as much as possible but then we avoid some pictures and others we have no problem to see. We show some of pain and cruel things and others we pixel and if we do not, then we there is a big discussion and hunt against those who showed them. 

Of course the photographer wants to show his pics, the documentation of a crash, a burned human, a burning house, the result of war and so on. Of course it is war porn if you say so and yes we risk to get used to them like we got use to all the porn pictures. 

But then, it is their job to make them. 

The thing is that even the papers say many times thank you, but thank you -not! 

It seems a common rule that it is o.k. to show people and dead parts of a body, if the human had a flying crash, a car crash or has been a victim of a natural disaster. But if it is about people getting killed, if it is about people getting stoned, if it is about people being victim of a war then we say we don't want to see the pics, thought we know the cruelty exist. We have easy suddenly then to explain why we should not show them and that we give power to the demons if we show them but is that the true why we avoid them?

I think not.

Is it not the fear that we see something going on in our lifetime, Is it not that we feel helpless because we know we could have done it better. Is it not the fear that we won't find a way to stop this kind of cruelty? Is it not the fact, that people who fell for a crash are far away from us and we know we can't and don't have to do anything?! It is kind of not our responsibility. 

So should we better do it the other way round?! Not showing those victims of a crash, a natural catastrophe, but showing the victims of a bomb, a war, the bloody face  of a reality we should find a way to change?! Because if we see in the eyes of those people we take this reality for real and the fact that we stand for this world. We have done this! We must find a way because here we can and should, and yes feeling helpless is a start as it is the reason to react. Yes, those pictures hurt as hell and give us a bad feeling, making us feeling ill and angry. Yes, that is our reality. What can we do? That is the question we have to look at.

What do you think?!

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