After looking at the picture, we were told that the photographer, Kevin Carter, had killed himself. The controversy is: Is it worth it to take his life because of a picture, that he did not step up to help the baby? Many have been telling him to help the baby, while others feel that since it is a third world country, he may get infected by unknown diseases carried by the baby. In our opinion, we feel that there is more to what Kevin decides to do. He was just obeying orders when he was told not to do anything to the baby. Try to place yourself in his shoes, if he went up to help the baby, the baby will be saved, but his parents might be very worried when they cannot find the baby when they return, and what if he gets transmitted? He will not be able to go back to his homeland as he would carry the disease with him and may even cause an epidemic. Therefore, as he is taking the picture, we feel that there is not a need for him to take his life. Although the child died, but his suicide might not mean that he is guilty. It might just have meant that he could not take the stress from the public.
Another perspective is that we feel that it is quite an interesting way of showing the current condition of third world countries to others, the child is very unfortunate as it is abandoned at a horrible environment. However we feel that the instruction to not help these people after taking a photo of them, which is something we think is quite rude when you do not ask their permission, is not displaying empathy. While they try to encourage others to have empathy to help, they do not have empathy themselves if they do not step up and help themselves. We think the photographer is very irresponsible as he comes in just to take a photo and just left without providing any help to the baby. We feel that this is quite an irony that should be changed.
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