Based on my reading of the dystopian short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by author Ursula Le Guin, I would walk away from Omelas. The suffering of any person is not something to be celebrated, “content merely to know it’s there” (Omelas 5) but rather something that should be condemned. Validating the misery of a child as necessary for “the happiness of thousands”(6), still doesn't extinguish the fact that a person is suffering for my benefit. Knowing that my “happiness, depend wholly on this child’s abominable misery”(5), the guilt felt would be insufferable. Omelas being the happiest city, this information would not let me enjoy the “comfort, luxury, exuberance” (2) of the city. By choosing to leave, protesting Show More
