Re: From jeb1981 of LJ then how is that different than looking at pictures of corpses, or beaten up x characters, as a registration of some especific event?
Because Barbara Gordon, the human being suffering in those pictures is a good friend of Dick Grayson's, someone he's known since he was a teenager, with whom he's worked, and been with in a serious long-term relationship.
He is not looking at pictures of a stranger, someone he's never met and has no personal/emotional connection to him. He knows and values her as a person, as a colleague and as a friend. There is no way for him to be looking at those photos and not feel awful about it.