I think that there is also just descriptively a psychological feature that prevents us from feeling good about this situation. It's very hard to represent psychologically the accrued pleasure of everybody else it's very easy to see one-on-one fuck my happiness is contingent upon this guy's torture no I don't want that. But because it's hard to then multiply all of the happiness you know it's veryHard to represent what that even means that a million people are happy we just our mind has trouble going there in order to justify the situationYeah although I think that's why she takes so much time to really do that to really express the joy and again like have us fill in the details of what
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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