The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

1973 • 19 pages

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EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE TO READ IT.

September 20, 2022

Can't believe I've never read this one. Will be thinking about it for a while.

February 19, 2018

Made me a socialist. Five Stars.

December 1, 2019

I don't think I'll be able to sleep for the next few days.

October 2, 2021
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Does the needs of the many outweigh the suffering of an individual? Hard question disguised in a short story wrapped in a beautiful language. Thought provoking on which I mis admit I can't answer. I wish I could say I would be walking from Omelas but I'm unsure I would and it's haunting.

April 25, 2021

An excellent short story about a Utopian City. Also an excellent thought experiment for readers about an extremely radical version of utilitarianism.

November 21, 2019

7/10

May 21, 2024

Ursula K Le Guin rolls “least interesting thought experiment of all time”, asked to walk away from Omelas

September 27, 2023
January 25, 2024

Will written, haunting characterization of an ethical dilemma

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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

January 20, 2023

Como todo buen libro de science-fiction, Le Guin te presenta un mundo maravilloso que guarda horribles secretos que te hacen cuestionar tus valoraciones y tu vision en la vida.

Primer escrito de Le Guin que leo y, definitivente sera el primero de muchos.

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