[SpamCop-Social] Re: Blame the animals?

[Linda J LaCarte Livingstone]

I agree with mostly all of what y'all have said. One can only hope after the
initial grief and reaction is over that someone will sit back and THINK.

It's like the tragic, no doubt about it, case of a woman in my town, who backed
the SUV up over her child. Tragic accident. A picture of her, distraught, is on
the front page of the paper. Tough, absolutely. But if that image flickers in
even one's person's mind the next time they go to do something like that and it
saves the life of a child, it is worth all the discomfort the image caused those
who saw it. As I wrote to the editor who was defending the paper's position for
posting the picture, I think people don't like to see the resemblence to
themselves in images like that, so they want them surpressed. Had it been me,
and God forbid it ever happens, who did this, my pride would go out the window
and I would want that image out there to maybe prevent at least one more from
happening.

L