Not that cynical, personally. Film away, but stay out of the damned water, as far as I’m concerned. Don’t make a bad problem worse by one’s complicating presence.
I share pictures of wildlife: raccoons, fox, coyote and others who come to visit. Tame and boring enough, to most. Been filmed/recorded at difficult emergency scenes by people who never before experienced the unusual circumstance in which they found themselves. Got people in my department who wear a helmet cam into working structure fires. I don’t, but sure don’t care that they choose to do.
It’s the world in which we live, liking it or not.
IDK, just don’t get the angst.
“They didn’t do anything.” Well, they shouldn’t have. They were smart, or cowardly ... but they went home.
“They recorded the event.” Well, so? Most people, fortunately, don’t deal with this crap. It is astounding to them, unique, and they record it. Like I do the rare bear that wanders by, or the nightly raccoons who are part of my life, or the kid’s first steps.
“What if it were YOUR family?” Well, I’d deal with it, probably not choosing to watch the video should I happen across it.
I’m gonna’ die (probably sooner than most of you). My children will, and grandsons, and everyone reading these words. I’d have done a better job with the design, repair and longevity of the make/model had I been asked. It’s just the way it is, though. We only rarely roll back the tide of eternity for a relative few (and not for that much longer, in any case), and generally don’t change the popular morays of mankind as a whole.
Film away, I say, those things which (by choice or circumstance) grab the “moments” of your life, often unbidden. And stay out of the damned water. Make sure you go home.
