Sontag's messed up views

After reading Sontag's In Plato's Cave I felt bombarded by negativity.  Although I can see the points of her views, they are all extremely exaggerated.  Referring to photos as murder is a bit of an overstatement.  Yes I can see how photos can cause negative emotions to stir within people but not to the point where I think this world should have nothing to do with photography.  In contrast with Sontag's thoughts I do think that photos contain truth.  Honestly if we didn't use any type of photography It would give us a disadvantages when it comes to a lot of thing, education being one of them.  If you use her arguement about how photos don't show everything therefore they aren't truthful, then basically humans can't communicate with eachother anymore.  We all don't explian every little detail of everything that happens in our lives when telling others about events that have happened to us.  There is always going to be that slice of mystery in just about everything in life.  Is it even possible to know 100% of something? Not really, and I don't think that that is a bad thing.  I think life would be boring if we knew everything.  Photos can say a thousand words, and so can people.  Either way those "words" are probably going to be distorted is some way, shape, or form.  Say you actually go the the place where the photo was taken with the exact same environment as when it was taken then does that give you a better impression on what was depicted in the photo.  Of coarse, but then again even experiencing it in real life will still leave you not knowing every detail.  The truth can only be seen to a certain extent.  Overall, photographs are a positive thing not a negative one.  When viewing and taking photos it is important to take in all the angles but you don't have to over think it.