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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Susan Sontag
Aggravation, World Suffering, Suffering
"AIDS and Its Metaphors" by Susan Sontagm, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ch. 4, (p. 125), 1989.

Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.

Susan Sontag
Distance, Suffering, Way
Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.117, Macmillan

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

Susan Sontag
Suffering, Doe, Compassionate
Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.21, Macmillan

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