I’ve got a whole study guide on it! Well, “Ones” (not “Those” that student use more often than not) suggests the individual as meaningful; the allusions in it to Dostoyevsky, James, & Arendt on power; & the contrasts among deontological, consequentialist, & virtue ethics.
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So, I mean, that's this ambiguous thing about "walking away" What are we walking away from exactly It seems like we're walking away from both -- by walking away from the idea of utilitarian sacrifice being morally acceptable we're walking away from utopia, period
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That's my read, anyway, having wrestled with what the hell this story is supposed to be about a bunch In the context of stuff like The Dispossessed or The Lathe of Heaven "I'm not going to try to imagine some perfect world where perfect happiness exists It's too dangerous"
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Which is exactly why its not utopian & doesn't engage with prefigurative politics (neither of which means "conservative").
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