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Episode 163: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")

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Omalas

There's something she says right before that, which I think is important for the story. But it's actually like I highlighted this also because it just kind of comes out of nowhere. It could be read just as a... She's just talked about orgies, and she wants to point out that people don't feel guilty about those. Because we might associate the licentious sex with something that's bad for us and feel bad after we do it. Yeah, I don't think that that's ... That's not the way I read it. And it's hard to, once you find out what you find out, it's open to question.

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