HF393

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I've never actually read it for myself, so I might be missing some details (or getting some wrong) here, but from what I recall, Omelas is a thought-experiment city proposed by Ursula K. Le Guin in "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas". In effect, it is a city in which every need of every citizen is met in perpetuity, a state which is, through irrelevant means, maintained so long as one child, kept secreted away from the rest of the citizenship but shown to every citizen who passes a certain age, is made to suffer. The thought experiment, then, the challenge posed to the reader, is what the value of that single life holds in comparison to the happiness and comfort of the citizens up above.

(EDIT: It's equal parts that and the question of whether it's worth it to secure for oneself a happiness that one knows exists, at the expense of others, or whether it is more worthwhile to pursue happiness without the suffering of others, regardless of whether such a goal is even attainable in the first place.)