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Why Don't We Just Kill The Kid in the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim
4.0
Why were they killing the kid though? Why not just stealing them? Was it just for the gory internet clickbait videos?
Anyway, this is a response to Ursula K. LeGuin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas that reads like it was written by Tamsyn Muir. I'm not sure what it's arguing. That we're all just as bad as each other and enjoy making ourselves feel better by tearing each other down? That the magic of the scapegoat child is, in fact, a façade and many of the things we consider load-bearing necessary evils are in fact just placebos to give ourselves the illusion of control?
Anyway, this is a response to Ursula K. LeGuin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas that reads like it was written by Tamsyn Muir. I'm not sure what it's arguing. That we're all just as bad as each other and enjoy making ourselves feel better by tearing each other down? That the magic of the scapegoat child is, in fact, a façade and many of the things we consider load-bearing necessary evils are in fact just placebos to give ourselves the illusion of control?