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[b]NeonCzolgoz:[/b] so i’ve just been like
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]reading the classics a bit
[b]NumbToNothing:[/b] look at this dumb fuck reading
[b]NumbToNothing: [/b]gay
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]dumber and gayer than you could possibly imagine
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]and I know what you can imagine so that’s really saying something
[b]NumbToNothing: [/b]owo
[b]NeonCzolgoz:[/b] anyway I was reading The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas by the woman who came up with the ‘lathe of heaven’ thing, LeGuin? 
[b]NeonCzolgoz:[/b] picture a perfect utopia. All the food’s amazing and people fuck in the streets whenever they want. Total equality, everyone’s happy, and everyone knows being happy rules
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]but at the middle of the city there’s a suffering kid
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]its got rashes from being soaked in its own shit for so long, all it knows is pain, it is the saddest possible kid you could imagine
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]and it’s locked up in a room forever, to suffer like that
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]because it needs to for the city to work
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]let’s say because of magic or some shit, how that’s true isn’t important, just that it is
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]and everyone on their eighteenth birthday learns about it
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]and most of them choose to stay in utopia, thinks it’s worth it
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]but some leave. Nobody knows what’s outside omelas, nobody knows what happens to the people who leave, just that none of ‘em come back. 
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]so here’s my question
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]do you stay or leave Omelas
[b]NumbToNothing:[/b] oh shit
[b]NumbToNothing:[/b] leave I guess
[b]NumbToNothing: [/b]or uh
[b]NumbToNothing: [/b]maybe stay?
[b]NumbToNothing: [/b]maybe if I’d been born there I’d leave
[b]NumbToNothing:[/b] but like if you put me there now, and told me I had to come back to this shit
[b]NumbToNothing: [/b]I don’t think I’d be able to walk you know
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]yeah I’m fucking staying
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]fwiw 
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]that shit sucks but like 
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]i know what I already live with, and I just get mad about it, but like
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]better one kid suffering for a reason then a generation of kids being brought up by miserable parents suffering for none
[b]JuntaSThompson: [/b]I don’t know.
[b]JuntaSThompson: [/b]It feels like that suffering for no reason is different than knowing someone’s suffering as a price?
[b]JuntaSThompson: [/b]In saying that, then if you know you could have utopia if one kid suffers a lot, then all that suffering for the world being as it is becomes the reason instead
[b]JuntaSThompson: [/b]Is it worth keeping the world as it is just to prevent the suffering of one kid
[b]JuntaSThompson: [/b]I wouldn’t break Omelas
[b]JuntaSThompson: [/b]Not sure that means I could live with knowing either
[b]ProvocativelyFickle: [/b]I walk
[b]JuntaSThompson: [/b]Yeah?
[b]NeonCzolgoz: [/b]why’s that?
[b]ProvocativelyFickle: [/b]Couldn’t say. I just would though.
[b]JuntaSThompson: [/b]Fair enough, I guess.