ME FOR 30 YEARS: stop trying to solve The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, it's not literally about one suffering child, it's an analogy about existing in a society built on invisible but tangible atrocities! it's like trying to engineer the trolley problem. the point is to think about it, not to rewrite it so you can get the utopia without torturing the child.
THE ENTIRE STATE OF IDAHO, ENACTING SWEEPINGLY TRANSPHOBIC LEGISLATION TO PREVENT EXACTLY ONE (1) TWELVE-YEAR-OLD FROM PLAYING JUNIOR HIGH VOLLEYBALL:
ME: okay, maybe there's some merit in reading it absolutely literally.
