From a5742d2e1ab5e1c475d3e32ad30578af5bc470f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Gauthier Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2022 12:32:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add link to omelas story --- content/post/negotiating-the-value-of-a-single-life.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/post/negotiating-the-value-of-a-single-life.md b/content/post/negotiating-the-value-of-a-single-life.md index 0a66879..cdc8ac3 100644 --- a/content/post/negotiating-the-value-of-a-single-life.md +++ b/content/post/negotiating-the-value-of-a-single-life.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ image: /img/omelas.jpg draft: false --- -In 1973, Ursula Le Guin wrote a short story about a utopian city called "Omelas". The story is, at its core, a philosophical thought experiment. To summarize: Let's just accept for the sake of argument, a city that is so self-sufficient, and so devoid of want or suffering or strife that the people of the city were able to live in an unceasing state of joyous bliss. Every season involved weeks-long festivals of celebration, and nobody was deprived of any need, material, moral, or psychological. +In 1973, Ursula Le Guin wrote a {{< newtab title="short story about a utopian city called 'Omelas'." url="https://gmgauthier.us-east-1.linodeobjects.com/docs/omelas.pdf" >}} The story is, at its core, a philosophical thought experiment. To summarize: Let's just accept for the sake of argument, a city that is so self-sufficient, and so devoid of want or suffering or strife that the people of the city were able to live in an unceasing state of joyous bliss. Every season involved weeks-long festivals of celebration, and nobody was deprived of any need, material, moral, or psychological. After spending three pages describing this blissful demos, and making a philosophical defense of the pleasure of happiness itself, she then says this: