I read the following in an article and it stayed with me: “Maybe the world is thunder and lightning, sun and snow- all at once. It’s a sacrifice they are willing to make. It's a given that they are walking away from the most thorough joy anyone has ever known but perhaps they are walking towards a land of justice, and perhaps they value that more than their own absolute joy. The ones who choose to walk away are different, they won't teach themselves to accept the child's misery and they won't teach themselves to accept the guilt. The ones who learn to accept it cajole themselves by thinking that the child has been degraded for far too long already that the rescue would come too late it's unlikely that it would get much good of its freedom. Eventually, one of the two things happens: they learn to accept that there is nothing that they can do for the child or they choose to leave. Most of them want to help him and many even get upset over the injustice. As children of Omelas reach a certain age, they are taken to see the miserable child. Metaphorically speaking depression is the underbelly of Omelas. The ones who walk away from Omelas is a science fiction by Le Guin, about a utopian society whose existence relies on the perpetual misery of a single child.
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