"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.
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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