Date: 2021-04-24 03:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ermingarden
Oh, I know exactly what kind of story you mean! I'm betting you've already read it, but Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" strikes me as a response, in some ways, to this sort of story; a rebuke to utilitarianism.
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