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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")

Very Bad Wizards

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Is My Mom Coming to Pick Me Up?

Everybody in the city knows that this child is there. Only some of them have come to see it though. Others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why and some do not. But they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships depend wholly on this child's abominable misery.

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