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Subject: RE: [Leica] Which lens would you use ? (a moral dilemma)
From: "Brian McCarthy" <straightline@btinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 08:21:25 +0100

Most amusing. But seriously - I would save him if I could. If I were to let
him drown when it was within my power to save him, then I would merely be
making myself more like him. So, he would ultimately win anyway. You cannot
fight evil with evil.  Be true to yourself.

Brian McCarthy
brian@imagespace.co.uk
www.imagespace.co.uk

> > ----- 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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