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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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I Don't Think You Can Resolve It Like the People Who Walk Away

"I have more consequentialist leanings than you part of it depends on how much misery would I really be bringing into the world," he says. "This is truly giving us the dilemma yeah and it's there's no right like the people who walk away that's as good a resolution as you're going to get" He doesn't think they're heroes but maybe precisely because they don't try to make a big deal out of their experience.

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