LZ Granderson: I knew the bare bones of the story before and it almost sounds so simplistic, like maybe a reductio of utilitarianism in some weird sense. But it's so much richer. She pulls no punches about saying how miserable this Kafka-esque suffering is. "I was totally fucked with my class," she says.
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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