DreaminGirl posted at 10:30AM Thu, 11 June 2020 - #4391497

You might as well ask if photography is 'ethical' since you most likely didn't create what you are photographing yourself.

Uh, not the same thing at all. Photography is the process of capturing light and reproducing it chemically, mechanically or electronically. Short of reproducing the universe everytime you wanted to take a picture, so that everything was original to you, there's no way you could do that. Even then, depending on what, where, and who you photograph or for what purpose, photography could be not only unethical, but illegal.

Also, you CAN fake a photograph by photoshopping, which some people do consider unethical and even illegal, no matter how "artistically" its done.