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Offline -ammo-

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« on: October 12, 2001, 10:28:00 AM »
Subject: MORAL QUESTION


I have a moral question for you. This is an imaginary situation, but think
it is interesting to decide what one would do.

The situation: You are in the Middle East, and there is a huge flood in
progress. Many homes have been lost, water supplies compromised and
structures destroyed.

Let's say that you're a photographer and getting still Photos for news
service, traveling alone, looking for particularly Poignant scenes.

You come across Osama Bin Laden who has been swept away by the floodwaters.
He is barely hanging on to a tree limb and is about to go under.  You can
either put down your camera and save him, or take a Pulitzer Prize winning
photograph of him as he loses his grip on the limb.

So, here's the question and think carefully before you answer the question
below:

Which lens and shutter speed would you use?
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Offline Hangtime

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« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2001, 10:38:00 AM »
LOL!.. well first; I'd get a line around his neck, and cleat him off to the limb.

Then I'd set up the camara on a tripod with a shutter delay, then get a shot of myself hauling the bastard up in the noose 'big gamefish' style...

.. thereby ridding the world of that piece of toejam, score the Nobel prize for photography, and make myself 5 million richer in the process.

But; hey that's just me.  :)
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Offline Leslie

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« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2001, 10:46:00 AM »
You two are a tough act to follow, so I'll just settle with adding a "highest rating" mark to your profiles.  :D

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Offline Greese

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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2001, 11:13:00 AM »
I think that he should actually be saved.  

I believe it is in everyones best interest to bring him back to the US peacefully, and then let him go through the trial process.  

When it's all done, I think he should be the one who picks up the soap in the jail's communal showers.
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Offline mrfish

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« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2001, 12:23:00 PM »
that's a tough one but i think people would want to see in depth facial expressions to i would use high speed film and a healthy zoom lense and of course a fast shutter speed - wouldnt want to blur that one.  :)
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Offline pugg666

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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2001, 12:44:00 PM »
i'd drop the camera, take out my .45 and see what his facial expresion is with one or two .45 acp in it.
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Offline john9001

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« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2001, 02:11:00 PM »
well , it would depend on your film speed and how much sun you had , but a avg setting would be about f5.6 at 250, but if it's a real action shot i'd go to 500 or 1000 of a sec
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Offline easymo

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« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2001, 02:20:00 PM »
I would "disappear" him.  Dead. He is a martyr.  In custody.  He is an excuse to kidnap coalition partners, and hold in exchange for his release.  If I played Where's Waldo with his ass, the uncertainty would trouble Americas enemies far more then it would us.
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Offline Gunthr

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« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2001, 02:56:00 PM »
Oh yeah. We need to make sure he dies in the field. We need his head.
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Offline Thrawn

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« Reply #9 on: October 12, 2001, 03:22:00 PM »
I agree with easymo on this one....  :eek:

Alive he's a symbol to rally around, dead he's a symbol to rally around.  I think quitely dead is the way to go.
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Offline weazel

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« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2001, 04:16:00 PM »
I would save him, incarcerate him in a pig sty for 6 months with a 24/7 webcam/satellite feed and give him only pig slops to eat.

When he died of disease/malnutrition or execution I would bury him in the hide of one of his cellmates.
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Offline MrBill

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« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2001, 10:01:00 PM »
Get him out of the tree, get him to a surgeon in the free world, give him a complete free sex change, drop him back into the taliban territory to let him live out his life as a woman under their system of sexual equality.
But I really like weazel's suggestion also.
And I have no idea how to set the shutter speed on my Polaroid.  :D
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Offline Tac

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« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2001, 10:18:00 PM »
MrBill, YES! Thats the GREATEST solution ive heard so far! Its PERFECT.
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Offline weazel

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« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2001, 10:24:00 PM »
I forgot to add surgically remove his right hand so he would have to eat using the hand he wipes his bellybutton with, it's supposed to be another grave insult to moslems.
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Offline Manedew

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« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2001, 11:07:00 PM »
Piles of buring afgan babies is what we need!
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