[Leica] Another Altered Photo

[leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)]

On 7 Aug 2006 at 14:51, John Sluss wrote:

> Landis may have taken a little extra testosterone to stay in the race. He 
> just wanted to stay in the race afterall. If so he cheats. One can make up 
> a 
> lot of excuses, but the bottom line is he was fired for altering a 
> photograph.

And rightly so.  I just find it useful sometimes to try to get a 
handle on WHY the people who cheat do so; it adds data points to the 
bullshit detector software.

In today's world it seems very common for one group to respond to 
another group and their actions based on some pulled-out-of-nowhere 
propaganda-based motivation ("They hate our freedoms") rather than  
on some sort of rational look at what makes each group do what they 
do, or in many cases what they themselves have said...

And that means that each group's reactions are usually both 
inappropriate and incomprehensible to the other group, who then 
respond based on what THEY perceive (or are told to perceive), and 
everybody's talking past each other, and things just go spiraling 
upward (or downward, depending on the metaphor) until everything goes 
boom.

Personally, I don't see this as a good development, but then I don't 
LIKE covering riots and gang fights and wars, and I most especially 
don't like being shot at or having things set on fire or blown up in 
my immediate vicinity.  I'm just over thinking that running for my 
life is fun.  If I have to, I have to, it's the nature of life, but I 
think I can be excused for NOT wanting to do it on a regular basis so 
some group of politicians or warlords or whatever can get their 
little hormonal viagra on, y'know?
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