Omelas is an interesting thought experiment, unfortunately it doesn’t explain how did the society manage to produce itself based on the suffering of one child. There is nothing original in that book that hasn’t been written by philosophers 1000 years ago already.
If anything Omelas is just a totem used to distract you, all the exploitation conveniently blamed on a single one entity.
Omelas is an interesting thought experiment, unfortunately it doesn’t explain how did the society manage to produce itself based on the suffering of one child. There is nothing original in that book that hasn’t been written by philosophers 1000 years ago already.
If anything Omelas is just a totem used to distract you, all the exploitation conveniently blamed on a single one entity.