6. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

 I think that when you are in a situation like the people of Omelas are, where one child has to continuously suffer so that everyone else can be happy, that it is an unfair situation. I would want to save the child, even if that meant that I would be dooming everyone else to feel less happiness and to feel guilt and pain, and other emotions that make us sad. I believe in the saying that people in a family or in a community are really only as strong as their weakest person, and in this case the weakest person is the child. The child's continuous suffering cannot be permitted to continue, because it is inhumane and terrible to allow a child to suffer like that at all. Even if what the people of Omelas tell themselves is true, and the child will never fully recover, I think that is in fact all the more reason to bring the child out and attempt to right the wrongs done to it. 

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