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Subject: Re: [Leica] Which lens would you use ? (a moral dilemma)
From: "SonC (Sonny Carter)" <sonc@sonc.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:48:42 -0500
References: <B7EB8FB7.426A%cyberdog@attglobal.net> <004601c15272$2981b400$543e9eca@jsjdesktop>

Very good, Jerry

Without becoming political or religious here, we should all think,
when such a situation comes up,  "What Would Jerry Do?"


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry S. Justianto" <jsjm6@cbn.net.id>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Which lens would you use ? (a moral dilemma)


> That's a joke,
> I will save a human being, anyway I would not have time to know him,
since
> everyman in Afghanistan look alike in times of emergency, white
dress and a
> beard.
> Remembering a Good Samaritan.
>
> JSJ
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pascal" <cyberdog@attglobal.net>
> To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:04 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Which lens would you use ? (a moral dilemma)
>
>
> > A moral question
> >
> > I have a moral question for you. This is an imaginary situation,
but I
> think
> > it is fun to decide what one would do.
> >
> > The situation: You are in the Middle East, and there is a huge
flood in
> > progress. Many homes have been lost, water supplies compromised
and
> > structures destroyed.
> >
> > Let's say that you're a photographer and getting still photos for
a news
> > service, traveling alone, looking for particularly poignant
scenes. You
> come
> > across Osama Bin Laden who has been swept away by the floodwaters.
He is
> > barely hanging on to a tree limb and is about to go under.
> >
> > You can either put down your camera and save him, or take a
Pulitzer Prize
> > winning photograph of him as he loses his grip on the limb. So,
here's the
> > dilemma, think carefully before you answer the question below:
> >
> > Which lens would you use?
> >
> > Pascal
> > NO ARCHIVE
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