In 1993, after snapping this heart-wrenching image, photojournalist Kevin Carter just walked away. He was less than 1 kilometer (2/3 mile) from the U.N. food camp toward which the Sudanese girl was crawling, yet he offered no assistance. No one knows what happened to the girl. Presumably, the vulture ate her.

She was the first victim of his inaction.

In 1994, Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for his effort. Two months later, he backed his red pickup truck against a blue gum tree, rigged a garden hose from the truck's exhaust pipe to the passenger window, rolled the windows up, turned the engine over, and laid down. He was found a few hours later, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning.

He was the second victim of his inaction.

When we do nothing, the vultures win.