Is It a Boy or a Girl?

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The child used to scream for help at night and cry a good deal but now it only makes a kind of whining. There are no calves to its legs. Its belly protrudes. It lives on a half bowl of cornmeal and grease a day. They all know it is there. All the people of Omeles. The story has to be something that really cuts at you at an emotional level.

David and Tamler are pulled into Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." Omelas is a truly happy city, except for one child who lives in abominable misery. Is that too high a moral cost? Why do some people walk away from the city? Why does no one help the child? Why does Le Guin make us create the city with her? Plus, we talk about our listener meetup in Vancouver, and a new edition of [dramatic music] GUILTY CONFESSIONS. Note: if this episode strikes you as too puritanical, then please add an orgy.

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