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    Member Chantel Stewels's Avatar
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    Consciences issue.

    I'm struggling with a bit of consciences issue here and maybe someone can tell me what to do.
    This morning as I woke I heard a muffled explosion sound outside some distance away. To make a long story short, a gas heater exploded in house a street away from me and although the emergency services were quite quick on the scene, the house was just about completely destroyed by the fire. I took pictures of the inferno from a distance before leaving for work but now I don't know if I should keep them. I mean, I stay in a fairly poor part of town and these unfortunate people probably did not have insurance and obviously lost everything. Someone also phoned me this afternoon at work and told me that 2 of the 4 people in the house were killed in the explosion. Now I really feel bad about taking photos of other people's misery and heartache.
    I'll never post these photo's anywhere but shouldn't I just delete them?
    I've heard before that one should take photo's of everything, good or bad but in this case I really don't know. What would you do?
    Last edited by Chantel Stewels; 07-30-2007 at 08:59 PM.

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