Would You Walk Away from Omelas? If You Would,do You

question 30

Essay

Would you walk away from Omelas? If you would,do you believe that you would thereby be partially to blame for the suffering that you left behind,if you did not attempt to stop it? Or could you coherently argue that you were not so responsible,on the grounds that holding you to be responsible for it would be to endorse an aspect of an ethical view (i.e.,the lack of a distinction between acts and omissions)that you are rejecting by walking away?

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Definitions:

Observations

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Degrees Of Freedom

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