Walking away from Omelas

One of the most brilliant stories ever written is THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS, by  Ursula Le Guin.  This three-page tale describes a golden city filled with brilliant, beautiful people, and asks why you don’t quite believe it.   More description follows, even more glory and splendor.  And then again, a query: why don’t you believe? And then finally the story takes you to a dungeon beneath the palace, and in the deepest depths, crouching in his own feces, is a deformed child.  Utterly i...