In Plato's Cave, Susan Sontag

After reading In Plato's Cave by Susan Sontag, I felt that she made the camera out to be something of a dishonest sort, as she calls it "naughty." Sontag mentioned the camera's resemblance to a gun, in that you must aim and shoot at your subject. She also mentions how people see the camera as an imposition to their daily life. It makes them fearful that the photographer has proof of their existence at that very slice of time. This goes along with Susan claiming the camera can be incriminating in that it records an event, but only at the right place and time.
To this day, industrialization and technology have made it possible for human brains to be bombarded with photographs on a daily basis; we are becoming "image-junkies." Between television, the internet, road-side advertisements, magazine and newspaper advertisements, product wrapping, etc., where can we go without seeing an image? What really made me think was when Sontag brought up the fact that a photographer cannot be one who intervenes. In a situation where a photographer must choose between getting the perfect shot to publish in tomorrow's newspaper and saving a man's life, he has already decided to take the picture because that is what goes along with being a photographer. It would be painstaking to capture the malnourished bodies of the starving without being able to bring them a better life.
Sontag brought up some points that made me think of the camera as a negative thing, while it has done many good things for society, too. It has brought us closer to other nations through pictures, it has allowed working-class people to capture candid moments, and it has portrayed truths to humans that have potential to change one's perspective.