Why the graphic images? Who are they helping?

I checked the news this morning and the fear gripped me like it so often has done in the past.

I am trying hard to focus on this tweet from @DrGMLaTulippe which said “What I’m most struck by: video of the explosion shows police, military, bystanders running TOWARDS blast area to help. People. Are. GOOD”

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And if you look through the stream of carnage and social media voyeurism there are a lot of people struck by the good in mankind. There are hundreds of reports of people running to help, to offer their services, to provide shelter and to donate blood.

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But the actual images coming out of the horror of the Boston Bombings are shockingly gruesome. I am not going to pretend for a minute that we should hide our heads in the sand and pretend that people have not literally been blown apart. I am however, choosing not to invade people’s most vulnerable moments by watching them bleed.

And while I think of how to approach the news headlines with my child I think about the mothers in Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. How do they talk to their children every day? Today 37 people were killed and 140 injured in an explosion in Iraq.

Thinking of all the people affected by war, greed and human depravity everywhere and focusing on this image of a couple reunited after the Boston marathon.

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Comments

  1. Extremely sad situation. I made sure the TV was on the kids shows this morning and kept updated via the internet. We don’t need the kiddies being exposed to these gruesome images. I also heard about how many died in Iraq today and it is terrible that it is such a norm in that country that we barely register it in our media.

  2. Collett Smart says

    Thank you for highlighting all these examples of GOOD! We need more of this.

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