Something More Troublesome Than Street Photography: People Who Brandish Ethics

For starters, photography etiquette and morals are important. Even I, who like to play the role of a street photography rogue, at least read the room—call it basic manners or morals. Consideration for others is consideration for oneself. I want to avoid any trouble with the police, after all. However, I have to wonder about people who want to be recognized as 'socially correct' beings by respecting such manners, morals, or—if you want to rephrase it—correctness and ethics, and who even go so far as to single out those who go against that correctness or ethics to show off their own righteousness. It makes me want to say something cynical, like Yasuhiro Nakasone once did: 'They chirp about ethics, ethics, just like bell crickets.' But lately, there are even more appalling types. These are the human scum who take those bell crickets chirping about ethics and the 'people deemed incorrect or lacking in ethics,' line them up, and turn it into fodder for impressions under the guise of 'let's all think about this.' Humans and society were never things that could be easily categorized, which is why friction and conflict occur, and why things rarely feel clean-cut. However, because people try to categorize them, the bell crickets remain bell crickets, and because there are people who resist, it becomes easy to go viral. It’s insane to see that as a business opportunity, but the internet is crawling with such people.

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