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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")

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Ivan Care About Some There's a Contract That Allio Shows Trying to Make Him Endorse This Deal I Reject the Terms of This Deal

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The word omalas came from a road sign Salem Oregon backwards and then she ends this little preamble with a quote like question from somebody where do you get your ideas from is Laguin from forgetting does so yes he and reading road signs backwards naturally where else that's great so let's talk about it which we barely have and that's good but in connection to utilitarianism. taking on all the sins and dying I think I think you're right and in the brothers care about some there it's very explicitly so Ivan care about some is saying this contract that his brother allio shows trying to make him endorse thisYou know what if one small child had to suffer so that we could

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