Is It Okay to Make a Documentary About a Subject Who Doesn’t Want to Be a Documentary Subject?

At the start of his career, Errol Morris set out to make a film about people from the same town who had cut off their own limbs and reported the amputations as accidental in order to collect insurance money. He received a death threat and eventually recognized that a documentary about these people would involve a lot of doors slamming in his face and ca…