It seems to me curious, not to say obscene and thoroughly terrifying, that it could occur to an association of human beings drawn together through need and chance and for profit into a company, an organ of journalism, to pry intimately into the lives of an undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings, an ignorant and helpless rural family, for the purpose of parading the nakedness, disadvantage and humiliation of these lives before another group of human beings, in the name of science, of

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This quote highlights the author's concerns and criticism towards journalism that exploits vulnerable individuals for profit. The author finds it deeply unsettling and distressing that a journalistic organization would invade the privacy of a marginalized rural family, who are already suffering, by exposing their struggles and hardships as a form of entertainment or study. The quote questions the morality and motives behind such journalistic practices, and the use of science or justification for such intrusions is viewed as absurd and disturbing.

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