Is This a Parable About Utilitarianism?

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Many people would think this is absolutely the best way right like it would be great if nobody had to suffer but if one people has to suffer for the happy for this so such clear happiness clear good. You'd be an idiot not to think of this as a utopia like it's just your emotional response at the one yep because there are a lot of kids that are suffering this in our own societylike to be all high and mighty about this city when exactly like our city except there's just thousands hundreds of thousands of suffering children.

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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