>in that day and hour all the prosperity and beauty and delight of Omelas would wither and be destroyed. ...and nothing of positive value would be lost. For a

>in that day and hour all the prosperity and beauty and delight of Omelas would wither and be destroyed. ...and nothing of positive value would be lost. For a paradise predisposed on the infliction of suffering on another is ill-gotten, and taints anyone that avails themselves of it once it's true nature is known. Our birthright is to toil to elevate one another; no more, no less. Omelas is a blight, a perversion, deserving of being scoured from the face of the Earth no matter where it pops up. Glad to see someone else was touched by that work. Greetings fellow wanderer.