ning from a napalm attack, images of war often transfix us but also have the power to inure us to violence without providing us the opportunity to do something of moral good despite the images, (SEE Photos 5 and 6). As Sontag (p. 95) asks in her essay ôLooking at War,ö ôWhat is the point of exhibiting these pictures? To awaken indignation? To make us feel æbadÆÆ that is, to appall and sadden? To help us mourn? Is looking at such pictures really necessary, given that these horrors lie in a past remote enough to be beyond punishment?ö
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