The question I chose was “why do the citizens of Omelas have to be made aware of the existence of the child in the basement?” The people in this utopian society must be made aware of this child in the basement because this child is the main reason as to why their society is able to hold its self up and operate on its own every single day.
When they first acknowledge this child some of the citizens in this society are either looking at them with disgust or sadness and after some time they realized that they’re solely dependent on this child so that they can continue their daily routines and/or continue keep being their everyday happy selves. It’s only then that they really take into consideration of what they’re doing and how their decisions can really affect this child along with the people around them but at the same time they see this as a 1:100 thing because they’re comfortable with this one child suffering rather than their whole society suffering.
Hey Ronneil, I agree that’s why they had to be made aware of the child because without the child, they wouldn’t be able to live the way they did. They sacrificed the child for themselves and you made great points to support that.
Why did you choose this question for this response?