There's a book out there called the ones who walk away from Omelas, I'm using it as my main point though I haven't read it because my brain's too impaired for reading most days now.
For those of you who don't know, the Ones who walk away from Omelas is basically about a utopia where everyone is happy and resources are plentiful. However, this utopia is built on a single child's suffering. No one knows why the chils needs to suffer but everyone will eventually know about the price of their utopia at some point once they're old enough. Then they are offered a choice, to stay or leave. Most stay, because the suffering of a single child for a near prefect world seems a good tradeoff. But sometimes, someone will walk away.
And I think this book can be used as a metaphor for us, at least the ppl here that hate society. Heck we don't even live in a utopia. We cannot see the good in the world as a worthy tradeoff to the bad, so we're walking away, and because there is no land outside of our "Omelas" we choose death.
(Technically there's the option of living in the woods but that's a death sentence to most people anyways.)
And like how it's done in the book, our choices should be respected, we should have the option to "walk away". I think this entire thing is also kind of unrelated to the book's message? But I still feel it can be used to explain our views.
For those of you who don't know, the Ones who walk away from Omelas is basically about a utopia where everyone is happy and resources are plentiful. However, this utopia is built on a single child's suffering. No one knows why the chils needs to suffer but everyone will eventually know about the price of their utopia at some point once they're old enough. Then they are offered a choice, to stay or leave. Most stay, because the suffering of a single child for a near prefect world seems a good tradeoff. But sometimes, someone will walk away.
And I think this book can be used as a metaphor for us, at least the ppl here that hate society. Heck we don't even live in a utopia. We cannot see the good in the world as a worthy tradeoff to the bad, so we're walking away, and because there is no land outside of our "Omelas" we choose death.
(Technically there's the option of living in the woods but that's a death sentence to most people anyways.)
And like how it's done in the book, our choices should be respected, we should have the option to "walk away". I think this entire thing is also kind of unrelated to the book's message? But I still feel it can be used to explain our views.
