Cropping a picture is not the same as photoshopping out a person in the middle of a picture. Obviously, a photograph doesn’t show every thing in a room. If it’s cropped to show somewhat less, it’s not making any assertion about what’s left out.
Besides, who has religious objections to seeing Joe Biden’s image?
Well, I was only throwing out a hypothetical on who might. I don’t know where or if he ever went to church, or why someone there might not like him anymore. Maybe it had something to do with him snoring in the pews?
A cropped image can be unethical if it’s trying to distort the reality of the situation by purposefully cropping an important element out, whether that element is cropped out in-camera or after-the-fact. This is not one of those situations, in my opinion, but I did want to note that the mere act of cropping can certainly be as unethical as Photoshopping out a person.
Since you’re in contact with him, could you inquire why they went to the effort of photoshopping in empty chairs rather than blurring/pixelating the women or cropping the photo?
These croppings are unethical because they detract from Hillary’s significance. She is an important part of the staff. She is part of the inner circle . Yet she gets erased due to some atavistic religious concept. It diminishes her. If you continually remove women from pictures that show them with power, you eventually think women are not part of the power in government. She is specifically diminished and women in general are too.
Sorry for being unclear. I was talking about the (facetious) comment about the cropped Biden photo. Hillary wasn’t cropped; she was Photoshopped out. Of course that’s unethical–there’s no question whatsoever on that.
See, there you run the risk of some enterprising young Hasid figuring out how to unblur or reassemble the pixels, gazing upon Hillary, and being overcome with lust.
(In my youth, it was sticking a nail into the underside of the cable box at just the right angle to unscramble the Playboy Channel.)