The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas question

I wonder if the entire story symbolizes life. We live happy lives, and then at some point, we find out that there is sadness in the world. Most people just try to push it out of their minds, and live their lives; but some, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, can't cope with it, thus taking their own lives. Where they go, is a place about which no one knows anything about.

Ursula K. Le Guin, in the documentary about her work, said that question "where do they go?" was the reason she wrote the short story. It does seems paradoxical, because there is no answer. But fiction is a way to pose better questions. So, it is a terrifying questyion, very unconfortable to face. What place could be better than Omelas, and can someone ever find it?

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."
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"Do you believe? Do you accept the festival, the city, the joy? No? Then let me describe one
more thing."
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"Now do you believe them? Are they not more credible?"

They walk away from the thought experiment itself. They refuse its premise. They refuse the idea that the child's suffering somehow makes Omelas more "realistic". In their belief, it does not logically follow that child abuse leads to utopias, and they disagree with the notion that Omelas could never achieve perfection without it. So they go to a place where oppression is truly nonexistent and not seen as a so-called "necessary evil".

To live a normal, suffering-filled life like the rest of us.

Well is Omelas the only city like itself or are there other cities like it in that world?

They go anywhere that their own happiness doesn't depend on cruelty to children.

I think they leave to seek a new happiness, which belongs to them personally, not dependent on anything else, not guilty of conscience. They freed them and also hoped to free the people there from the extremely cold-blooded happiness.