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This is a repost. It is not mine. I wish it were.
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HONOR AND DIGNITY
This is a very simple but important test featuring a hypothetical
situation. In the end you will be asked a question. By giving an honest
answer you will learn exactly where it is you stand. Please give your
answer serious thought, but attempt to answer as quickly as you can.
* * *
You are a photographer for CNN and you are in Miami, Florida covering
one of the worst hurricanes to hit Florida's coast in decades. Hundreds
of lives have already been lost and tens of millions of dollars in
private property has been swept away in torrential downpours and
gale-forced winds.
For the moment, you are relatively safe on an embankment, but chaos
surrounds you. Flash flooding has swept away several homes before your
eyes. Those that are left are roofless and destroyed, turned over,
shorn
like dollhouses. It's so hard to see but at one point you could have
sworn you saw some people being swept away as well.
You are in a difficult situation ... You are a photographer. You've
gotten some heartwrenching photographs of devastating destruction and
loss. There are many people out there who will want to know what
happened. Your job is to communicate with them and provide them with
the
visuals. Emotionally, these photos you have taken are golden, Pulitzer
quality shots.
You are also a human being. Part of you feels like you are just the
public's voyeuristic eye, snapping photos of the personal despair of
good people in bad circumstances. At what point does this become a
sadistic practice? Up until this point, you haven't been in any
position
to do anything but take pictures and take care of yourself, but what if
you are? Will you put down the camera at the risk of losing The Shot?
You see a man in the water, fighting for his life. He is trying not to
be taken by the current, but his efforts are fruitless. Unfortunately,
you cannot reach the man because the current is too strong. The rain is
slapping your face. For a brief moment, you contemplate taking the
man's
picture and you are instantly struck with remorse. He's probably just
some poor regular guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. No self
respecting news agency would air or print the picture anyway, unless he
was a public figure.
You move closer.
The man looks familiar.
Suddenly you know who it is. It is George W. Bush.
You are in complete shock. You feel like you are in a waking dream.
Completely unimaginable, but vividly real at the same time.
George W. Bush sees you and waves frantically.
For a brief and unreal moment, the wind, rain and current actually
subside.
You can see clearly. You've been given a rare window of opportunity
that
will probably only last for a split-second.
This is your chance.
You have to make a decision.
* * * * *
(The question you must answer is below.)
(Again, please give your answer serious thought, but attempt to answer
as quickly as you can.)
(By giving an honest answer you will learn exactly where it is you
stand.)
THE QUESTION: Would you use color film, or go with the simplicity of
classic black and white?
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