Professional Ethics- Some thoughts.

Before I'd read reader 5 I hadn't really understood how much professional and personal ethics can clash.

What really bought my attention to this was Case Study 2 where a documentary photographer took a photo of a Sudanese girl struggling to crawl to water. A vulture lands nearby and he waits for a good shot and then leaves, leaving the girl to die. The professional ethical role and duty of a photographer is to observe and not interfere, but surely the ethical role of a human being is to try and preserve life and help to stop pain and suffering. Yes, he's taking shocking pictures that will help to educate the masses to highlight the issues, but is the sacrifice of this little girl worth it? 

From the evidence that follows I believe not.

A year later the photographer committed suicide. He could no longer deal with the guild of letting the little girl die. 

This shows me that sometimes your personal ethics have to take precedence to your professional ethics; otherwise you lose a part of yourself that you might never be able to recover.