Walking Away From Greasy Situations

True happiness is relative. Often people decide that certain achievements will bring them to be happy (such as money, family, and friends). However, sometimes the means by which people strive to achieve these goals are evil or immoral. This contradiction is depicted vividly in the story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula LeGuin, in which one town’s entire success is based on one boy’s suffering. Another prime example of the …

…sound, really justifies the means by which we take to get there. This is what separates good from evil, and right from wrong. The people of Omelas aren’t necessarily evil, just like the boys in Greasy Lake aren’t necessarily stupid. But their decisions to continue to live in bad situations make them weak. Only those who choose to change the bad and move on to better things truly deserve the happiness they seek.