Re: [Leica] What I did today

[Bernard <5521.g23@g23.relcom.ru>]

Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> > Anthony, you're not trying hard enough to get outside your own head
> > and inside those of the people around you.  In their minds, the
> > scenario goes like this:
> >
> > - Photographer takes a picture of little Sarah in the playground.
> >
> > - Photographer keeps an eye on who little Sarah goes home with,
> hears
> > Mummy call her by name, and maybe even finds out where she lives.
> >
> > - Two days later Photographer sees little Sarah on the sidewalk, and
>
> > recognizes her from the pictures he took.
> >
> > - Photographer gets out of his car, and says "Hi, Sarah - remember
> me?
> > I took some wonderful pictures of you in the park on Saturday.   I
> > showed them to your mummy said they're the best pictures anyone ever
>
> > took of you.  Would you like to see them?."  Sarah says "Sure!"
> >
> > - Photographer shows her the wonderful pictures, and shoots her a
> line
> > about how fantastic she looks in them, and how there's a modeling
> > contract she'd be perfect for, and how her mummy wants her to come
> > home right away so they can talk about it and sign the papers.
> >
> > - Sara gets all excited, and climbs into Photographer's car.
> >
> > - Two weeks later she's found.  Most of her, anyway.
>
> Everything except the first event is imaginary.  Does this tell you
> anything?
>
> I can reason similarly:
>
>  - Man parks near me in parking lot.  (fact)
>
>  - I go into store, and man watches from parking lot.  (imagination)
>
>  - Man puts together his portable machine gun.  (imagination)
>
>  - Man cuts me and twenty other people down in a hail of bullets
>    as soon as I leave the store.  (imagination)
>
> As in the your scenario, only the first event is factual.  And, as in
> your
> scenario, the rest is a product of a very vivid and paranoid
> imagination.
>
> > In fact, this scenario is not so fanciful.
>
> In fact, it is.  It is very dramatically so.  How many psychos are
> doing this?
> Compare that with the number of photographers who take pictures of
> people, and
> give me the percentage probability that a person who takes a picture
> of a child
> is a nut.

Well, well...... I'm beginning to like you, Anthony. You're absolutely
right.

Bernard