Regarding The Pain Of Others

1. Should war photography of the injured and killed be allowed?
2. If so, to what extent?
3. Do these types of photos have a negative effect on society?

After reading Susan Sontags "Regarding the Pain of Others," I feel like I should go ahead and answer the first two questions- should war photography of the injured and killed be allowed and to what extent? I believe that it is not fair the victims family to have a photograph of their loved one dead for everyone to see. Nobody wants to remember their family or friend in that type of way. Although making war photographs and videos public for everyone and anyone to see can maybe gain more support for the military, it is unfair for the families of the fallen soldiers to have those types of pictures going around. I agree with Sontag when she says that the need for humans to document these actions are obscene and unnecessary. Knowing people in the military, it would break my heart to see my loved ones lying in the battlefield with gun shot wounds and no longer breathing.