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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.
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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.
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After spending three pages describing this blissful demos, and making a philosophical defense of the pleasure of happiness itself, she then says this:
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