Regardless of the moral calculus involved I can't really talk to anyone whose first impulse wasn't "Walk away? I'd burn Omelas to ashes"
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Actually, you could restate the story as the Voight-Kampf test for conservatism
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"your civilization is built on the suffering of innocent children. Why aren't you saving them?"
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@BootlegGirl Le Guin assumed a lot of her hippie utilitarian audience by assuming we'd all preserve the city
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