I am not a vegetarian and I'm not sure they're ethically correct but I have a lot of contempt for people who go out of their way to express contempt for vegetarians and more generally for the class of people who respond to shame at virtue in others with abuse
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Killing in general is a very numbing process. Even just observing it will change you, unless the thing was killed for a justifiable reason that wasn't just "I need money." Think self-defence or defence of others.
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I think one of the core points of Omelas is that modernity has not eliminated brutality, but rather redistributed it. (That said I do think, with low-to-moderate certainty, that the absolute amount of brutality is less now)
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I thought Omelas was about how readers, maybe humans, are too much of a bunch of anti-perfection assholes that they can't tolerate real to backsides utopia
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Interesting, I read it has having two main points: 1) Utilitarianism feels intuitively wrong. Grapple with that, reader. 2) Think about how your current life is similar to Omelas — how is your own flourishing supported by suffering that is just out of sight? Is it worth it?
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(gets troll fox mode on) how is 1) true, given than the people walking away from Omelas aren't most of them? does utopia break your intuitions too or (am ok with accepting 2) as its point and a valid question)
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General you or me personally? Like are you asking what I think or what I think most other people think?
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hm, both the people in the story and that in general, we take for granted real people that got teletransported into Omelas would mostly stay there, not leave, right?
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It's hard to examine Omelas-world from a practical perspective, rather than as an elaborate metaphor / narrative thought experiment, because my suspension of disbelief starts going crazy immediately. But yeah, I think people are fine with sufficiently distant suffering
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