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 This a Parable About Utilitarianism?
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.
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