The limits of reason to explain our reaction to a situation like this. There's something that we recoil at the bargain of an emotion that we have. We're motivated to remove ourselves from that situation at our and at our own expense just to not be involved in this utilitarian bargain. That is deeply important at a deep moral level. I think maybe James is endorsing here as giving us real insight but it also points to this is you know in the critiques of utilitarianism we've talked about this idea that it matters to us whether we're a part of something like whether we're connected to it so even if it goes on we can't just accept that we're benefiting from somebody else's suffering or
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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