- "I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners ... I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Blog work (class work )
Over the last few weeks of CID lessons, I have learnt many morals of life, but what moved me the most was the picture of an African girl preyed by a vulture. Kevin Carter was reported taking the picture, because it was his "job title", and left afterwards. He was told not to touch the children due to transmitting disease. He committed suicide 3 months after winning the Pulitzer Prize, and the reason was believed to be because of the many angry comments directed at him for not helping the young girl. I believe that these netizens have been too overboard, instead of praying and giving sympathy for the girl, they criticized him, causing him to be so guilty that he committed suicide. What right do they have to reprimand him so much?? I believe that even if they were in his shoes at that time, they will also not help the girl, thinking that it was not worth to risk their life as they might even get diseases from the little girl. Everyone can make mistakes and they will eventually be forgiven, so why can't they forgive him? Thus I finally understand from this lesson how critical and hurting your comments online as a netizen can be. I will end off with a quote I found online of his last words:
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