@crystal_air - How so? Explain it to me. I don't really know much about photography.

This picture touched me in a deep and horrible way. For the first few seconds, I couldn't tell that the child was human. It took a moment for me to realize that it wasn't an animal in the picture. The child is that deformed by starvation. And the vulture is stalking the child exactly as it would stalk a small animal. It makes me so sick inside.

@crystal_air - I'm going to have to disagree with you. I don't value neutrality. The picture needed to be shown. But the whole point of the picture is to motivate people to intervene in situations like this after seeing the truth. He failed to do on a small scale what his picture was supposed to inspire on a large scale.

@crystal_air - Yeah, I guess so. I don't see why he couldn't have done both though.

I found you through my footprints. :)

A kilometer away? Would it have been that hard to wrap the child in a blanket and take the child to the food camp?

Journalists know that intervention is not reccomended when it puts the person in danger. Ethics say not to intervene in a war zone, and this situation is completely different. I'm a Journalism major, and in my classes, we have discussed ethics, and I believe that what the photographer did was completely unethical.

However, it is so symbolic of attitudes towards starvation in Africa. People may say, "How could he do that? How could he walk away and do nothing?" but we do that every single day. We even ignore people who are starving in our own city. Its easy to point fingers, but when we look in the mirror, we see that we arent so different.

Still, I understand his suicide. I think that if I left a starving child to vultures, when all I had to do was to take him a 15 minute walk away (which probably would have taken the child hours and hours, if s/he was crawling, and if s/he didnt die in the process)... I think that would eat at me for eternity. Sometimes, inaction is murder.

This is incredibly sad

from the picture, no wonder he felt guilty. 

@IntrospectiveOctober - I completely agree with you. What he did was inexcusable. Sometimes we do inexcusable things too.

@TheBigShowAtUD - @EnjoyEdii - @Paul_Partisan - @elelkewljay - yeah, this is pretty shocking. I don't think most of us have ever experienced anything close to this. We are so shut off from the problems of the world. I can't speak for any of you though, of course.

It just makes me very sad.

@ItsWhatEyeKnow - It is. had this overwhelming sense of helplessness after reading it. It's not like individual people can do very much to help child soldiers. All we can do is maybe send letters to those in power- letters they probably won't even read.