Omelas

If I was a citizen of Omelas, I would have left. A utopia for all or a utopia for none. A society based on the DIRECT misery of others is not a society that I can be part of. Our current society that takes advantage of cheap labour, sometimes involving children, is INDIRECT. It is indirect due to it taking place in another country half a world away. Although there is no difference in the misery, the child in Omelas is easily accessible. If you wanted to see it, you could. This is not as easy as in our current society. Due to the fact that we are not exposed to this practice, we don't think about it. Out of sight, out of mind. If there was a factory down the road that used child labour and you had to pass it every day, the issue would be more prevalent in your daily life. To sum it up, even though the kind of misery existing in Omelas exists in the world today, I couldn't belong to a society that accepts it.