
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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You Know I Don't Want This to Be an Allegory
"I don't want this to be really an allegory yeah I agree it's reductive to make it an allegory," he says. "It can be a parable for so many different things like the problem of evil in general and you say you could take this certainly in a religious way" He adds: "The ability to walk away from it hinges on the specific person who's suffering that allows you to walk away"
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