Walking to work last month, there was no missing the countless newspapers featuring photographs of Muammar Gaddafi, dead. True, the use of graphic images in the press isn’t new. Examples include photographs of people jumping to their deaths from the World Trade Center Towers on September 11th, charred American corpses hanging from the girders of … Continue reading »
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Celebrating the Death of Evil?
In the middle ages, we hung the decapitated heads of our enemies on spikes in public. Today, we post gruesome videos of their death online and cheer in the streets. Do not get me wrong. Bin Laden and Kadafi caused a lot of suffering and death and the world may very well be better off … Continue reading »
