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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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Is the Child Not Free?

It's like they're almost glorifying their acceptance of this child suffering at that point saying oh we're suffering too in a way because yeah exactly I'm not free either. Yet it is their tears and anger the trying of their generosity and the acceptance of their helplessness which are perhaps the true source of the splendor of their lives. It's like fatalistic and yet there's something about that thatalmost glorifying of their acceptance ofthis child's torture thatYeah that struck me is and I had a lot of students that didn't agree with this like they thought maybe this is part of the explanation of why the child has to be down there maybe this is you know I think you can

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