The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

Would you sacrifice the happiness of another for your own happiness? Would you turn your cheek to a child in need if it would renounce your own rapture and change your life completely? Unfortunate to the way I was brought up and to my usual standards of thinking, I would have to answer these questions with a saddened "yes." I must admit that my happiness, my success, and my prosperity are most important to me. …

…stay. I choose to "live happily ever after" in my Utopia and nothing can influence that decision. Try not to hate me because I care about my own happiness; do not scorn me for my brutal honesty. I’m sure there are many others who would choose to walk away from Omelas and I’m sure there are many others who would gladly stay. What’s most important here is that everyone has a choice.