Fries to go - or Eco-annihilation and Child Exploitation?
On arriving in Porto, we were hard pressed to find anywhere that was open, let alone anywhere to eat. We were consumed with hunger, not having eaten for over 24 hours. Fortunately, the local McDonald's was open and Steven Lee (my friend from the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States) was unhesitating in his acquisition of French fries. Christine (Steve's wife) was not altogether happy with this decision. It was a difficult moment and one in which all of our ethical judgments were brought to bear. In the heat of the moment, worn and bedraggled with intense agonizing, I only just managed to take this shot, capturing the point of 'no return' - the point at which Steven Lee entered wittingly into the dark world of immorality, in which he appeared to give a tacit yet unrepentant nod to wholesale eco-devastation and unremittent child torture - merely through the act of eating three trans-fatty fries. Moral dilemmas of this kind have become increasingly prominent features of the new millennium.
(And you can bet your bottom dollar we'll have a lot more of these sorts of dilemmas to look forward to in the not-so-distant future).
Fries to go - or Eco-annihilation and Child Exploitation?
On arriving in Porto, we were hard pressed to find anywhere that was open, let alone anywhere to eat. We were consumed with hunger, not having eaten for over 24 hours. Fortunately, the local McDonald's was open and Steven Lee (my friend from the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States) was unhesitating in his acquisition of French fries. Christine (Steve's wife) was not altogether happy with this decision. It was a difficult moment and one in which all of our ethical judgments were brought to bear. In the heat of the moment, worn and bedraggled with intense agonizing, I only just managed to take this shot, capturing the point of 'no return' - the point at which Steven Lee entered wittingly into the dark world of immorality, in which he appeared to give a tacit yet unrepentant nod to wholesale eco-devastation and unremittent child torture - merely through the act of eating three trans-fatty fries. Moral dilemmas of this kind have become increasingly prominent features of the new millennium.
(And you can bet your bottom dollar we'll have a lot more of these sorts of dilemmas to look forward to in the not-so-distant future).