#omelas — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116483532834192001

This post notes out that defending absurd levels of wealth and income inequality with no social safety net is similar to believing “there must always be an Omelas child.”

“The Ones Who Walk Away from
Omelas” by Ursula K. #LeGuin describes a utopian city called #Omelas “whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child.”

This idea critiques the moral philosophy of standard #utilitarianism, which allow such situations if happiness outweighs suffering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116483532834192001

This post notes out that defending absurd levels of wealth and income inequality with no social safety net is similar to believing “there must always be an Omelas child.”

“The Ones Who Walk Away from
Omelas” by Ursula K. #LeGuin describes a utopian city called #Omelas “whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child.”

This idea critiques the moral philosophy of standard #utilitarianism, which allow such situations if happiness outweighs suffering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116483532834192001

This post notes out that defending absurd levels of wealth and income inequality with no social safety net is similar to believing “there must always be an Omelas child.”

“The Ones Who Walk Away from
Omelas” by Ursula K. #LeGuin describes a utopian city called #Omelas “whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child.”

This idea critiques the moral philosophy of standard #utilitarianism, which allow such situations if happiness outweighs suffering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116483532834192001

This post notes out that defending absurd levels of wealth and income inequality with no social safety net is similar to believing “there must always be an Omelas child.”

“The Ones Who Walk Away from
Omelas” by Ursula K. #LeGuin describes a utopian city called #Omelas “whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child.”

This idea critiques the moral philosophy of standard #utilitarianism, which allow such situations if happiness outweighs suffering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116483532834192001

This post notes out that defending absurd levels of wealth and income inequality with no social safety net is similar to believing “there must always be an Omelas child.”

“The Ones Who Walk Away from
Omelas” by Ursula K. #LeGuin describes a utopian city called #Omelas “whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child.”

This idea critiques the moral philosophy of standard #utilitarianism, which allow such situations if happiness outweighs suffering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas

Just walk away

https://piefed.social/c/lotrmemes/p/1985138/just-walk-away

Just walk away

Two posts from 2014: Trolley Problems, Nuclear Weapons, Snowden, Jocks, and Meat-Grinders

These are a pair of Facebook posts from 2014 which I just want to transfer over to my blog for ease of finding; but if you are particularly interested in questions of utilitarianism and outcomes (having seen multiple references to “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” in the past few weeks) they might be interesting…

Part 1: Why you should Shoot the Button

So my friend Glyn has been going around and posing a question something along the lines of:

« You are locked in a room with a man. You have a gun. The man has his finger poised over a button which will unleash nuclear armageddon upon the earth. Do you shoot the man? »

…which is apparently one of those questions being used to explore morality in a crisis; there are various spins on it, like you shoot him and he hits the button anyway, or will you kill one man to save one million people you don’t know, etc. From what I understand this question vexed some denizens of the Privacy International office for several hours.

Then they asked me, down the pub. I thought for a moment and said “shoot the button”, which caused consternation as nobody had suggested that before. The answer was relayed to Glyn via SMS who nitpicked it as above – “you might cause a short and incinerate the world” – so I wrote up my response as follows:

«This question (as posed to me) is actually a metaquestion, one which can be rationally disambiguated by the fact that someone asked it.

If it were up to me then, faced with a guy with his finger over the Armageddon button, I would certainly shoot him, in the head or heart, whichever presented minimal risk of accidental button-pushing on the way down. Quick kill, low risk.

I would do this because my threat model would be protection of the people whom I love, elsewhere, who would die in the conflagration. With this threat model, this is the only rational action other than suicide which would be nihilistic rejection of the choice.

However: if you are in a position to ask the question then you clearly have a different threat model. Specifically, if you are experiencing a moral quandry about killing one person to preserve the lives of millions, then you are already discounting numeric disparity and for some reason see the killing of one person as equally bad as the killing of 200 million.

In *that* threat model (choosing between two equally bad scenarios) then shooting the button, whatever the result, is the rational action. This is because shooting the button moves you from a state of having two bad outcomes (killing one, or seeing 200 million killed) to a situation where there are two bad and one good outcome (the former, plus: break the button and nobody dies).

This is clearly an improvement in your situation and therefore you should take it.

Any nitpicking about “it might be a drill” is compensated by “if so, the base commander may have filled your gun with blanks”, so can be safely ignored.

Welcome to thinking like a defender [ed: … as opposed to a pentester]»

Part 2: John Kerry vs: Edward Snowden

From what I remember of growing up, when jocks are defeated by geeks who are either/both better equipped than, or can outthink their opponents, three complaints – three unmanly whines – are to be heard from the defeated:

1. it’s cheating (because he didn’t attack me head-on)
2. it’s not fair (because I didn’t expect what happened)
3. he’s a coward for not fighting fair or honourably

The latter is particularly odd because part of the whole point of out-thinking your opponents is so that you don’t have to go up against their strongest suit. Throwing yourself into a meatgrinder may be “brave” or “daring” but sometimes it’s plain stupid, especially if going around the side is smarter.

In other news, John Kerry: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/kerry-snowden-coward-traitor-n116366

Back to 2025

If you’re still into Trolley Problems, my solution is: grab the lever and try to cause a derailment; but apparently that’s cheating.

#Omelas #philospohy #snowden #trolleyProblems

Finally got round to reading Le Guin's "those who walk away from Omelas". I never realised it was a short story - completed it in 5 mins. Wish I'd. Known sooner.
#boostodon #omelas

Do you need a compass to walk away from Omelas?

https://piefed.social/c/politicalcompassmemes/p/1502691/do-you-need-a-compass-to-walk-away-from-omelas

Do you need a compass to walk away from Omelas?

https://piefed.social/c/politicalcompassmemes/p/1502691/do-you-need-a-compass-to-walk-away-from-omelas

I wrote a post about Trust & Safety that I have been meaning to write for a while, but @caseynewton wrote something recently that reminded me.

It acts as a useful mission statement for the advocacy organisation I am slowly creating, which I have talked about in a few interviews, but not gotten around to yet - The problems with C-PTSD and AuDHD in concert mean that everything comes at a glacial start :)

https://superhighwayman.com/2025/the-ones-who-thrive-in-omelas/

#Writing #TrustAndSafety #Blog #Security #Infosec #Advocacy #SocialMedia #Online #Dating #OnlineSafetyAct #Moderation #Wellness #Health #PTSD #ADHD #AuDHD #Omelas #SciFi #UrsulaLeGuin

I wrote a post about Trust & Safety that I have been meaning to write for a while, but @caseynewton wrote something recently that reminded me.

It acts as a useful mission statement for the advocacy organisation I am slowly creating, which I have talked about in a few interviews, but not gotten around to yet - The problems with C-PTSD and AuDHD in concert mean that everything comes at a glacial start :)

https://superhighwayman.com/2025/the-ones-who-thrive-in-omelas/

#Writing #TrustAndSafety #Blog #Security #Infosec #Advocacy #SocialMedia #Online #Dating #OnlineSafetyAct #Moderation #Wellness #Health #PTSD #ADHD #AuDHD #Omelas #SciFi #UrsulaLeGuin

I have sadly forgotten who made this, but yeah, it tracks. #omelas #booksky #LeGuin #politics

The outies are the ones who stayed in Omelas, they and Lumon are the villains.

The innies are the better parts of themselves, suppressed.

Mark Scout is toxic; wallowing, immature, rageful, and refuses therapy.

Helena is cruel and complicit.

Bert Goodman told us he's going to Hell.

Irving Bailiff is a mystery.

Dylan George is aloof and immature.

They are all selfish, eminently self-serving.

"Who are you?"

To each outie, not a person

#Severance #AppleTV #tv #innies #outies #Lumon #Omelas

The outies are the ones who stayed in Omelas, they and Lumon are the villains.

The innies are the better parts of themselves, suppressed.

Mark Scout is toxic; wallowing, immature, rageful, and refuses therapy.

Helena is cruel and complicit.

Bert Goodman told us he's going to Hell.

Irving Bailiff is a mystery.

Dylan George is aloof and immature.

They are all selfish, eminently self-serving.

"Who are you?"

To each outie, not a person

#Severance #AppleTV #tv #innies #outies #Lumon #Omelas

7.2: Ariel & Christina Discuss: Why Must Utopia Be Cruel?

In this episode, Ariel and Christina try to get to the bottom of why our fictional visions of utopia are so negative. They often involve mindless acquiescence to an authoritarian nanny state, the oppression and labor of an underclass, or both. It’s as if we can’t imagine a situation in which we all voluntarily treat each other (reasonably) decently and life can be good for everyone. We discuss the literary origins of utopia, how it has evolved (or not) as a concept, and Ariel gives a few examples of sci-fi futures that are about as close to her style of solarpunk utopia as can be. Ultimately, the topic of utopia raises more questions than answers.

https://youtu.be/WR8yg2cOcMk?si=AwMMgH2MNFHmO8Ct

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Season7 #Episode #PodcastEpisode #YouTube #utopia #SirThomasMore #SaintThomasMore #ThomasMore #Dystopia #Protopia #WakandaForever #BlackPanther #Indigenous Futurisms #Afrofuturism #Utopias #Anti-Utopia #LiteraryHistory #Cruelty #Despair #Hope #UntopiaParadox #Omelas #TheOnesWhoStayAndFight #TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas

7.2: Ariel & Christina Discuss: Why Must Utopia Be Cruel?

In this episode, Ariel and Christina try to get to the bottom of why our fictional visions of utopia are so negative. They often involve mindless acquiescence to an authoritarian nanny state, the oppression and labor of an underclass, or both. It’s as if we can’t imagine a situation in which we all voluntarily treat each other (reasonably) decently and life can be good for everyone. We discuss the literary origins of utopia, how it has evolved (or not) as a concept, and Ariel gives a few examples of sci-fi futures that are about as close to her style of solarpunk utopia as can be. Ultimately, the topic of utopia raises more questions than answers.

https://youtu.be/WR8yg2cOcMk?si=AwMMgH2MNFHmO8Ct

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Season7 #Episode #PodcastEpisode #YouTube #utopia #SirThomasMore #SaintThomasMore #ThomasMore #Dystopia #Protopia #WakandaForever #BlackPanther #Indigenous Futurisms #Afrofuturism #Utopias #Anti-Utopia #LiteraryHistory #Cruelty #Despair #Hope #UntopiaParadox #Omelas #TheOnesWhoStayAndFight #TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas

Reading update!

I've finished Laundry Files, just in time for next years double bill/coup de grace.

Taking a short pallet cleanser before the New Management trilogy, but can't decide what. I'm torn between various things I picked up at/after WorldCon.

I also recommended Ursula K Le Guin's Those Who Walk Away From Omelas to a bunch of young adult friends on Saturday. I'm sure they'll be fine.

#LaundryFiles #Omelas

Reading update!

I've finished Laundry Files, just in time for next years double bill/coup de grace.

Taking a short pallet cleanser before the New Management trilogy, but can't decide what. I'm torn between various things I picked up at/after WorldCon.

I also recommended Ursula K Le Guin's Those Who Walk Away From Omelas to a bunch of young adult friends on Saturday. I'm sure they'll be fine.

#LaundryFiles #Omelas

Thinking a lot today about #Omelas and how 1. in our real world there are several million children locked away for our benefit and 2. there is really nowhere left to walk away to if you think "I don't want to be part of this," so it's either be complacent and complicit, or tear it all down. #leguin

Anyway, #freecongo #freepalestine #freesudan #freehaiti #freepuertorico #freehawaii #libterationforall

If you’ve read #UrsulaKLeGuin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from #Omelas” (and if you haven’t, you should, and can do so here: https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf), I _highly_ recommend reading #IsabelJKim’s “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” in this month’s issue of @clarkesworld Magazine: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

Oof.

If you’ve read #UrsulaKLeGuin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from #Omelas” (and if you haven’t, you should, and can do so here: https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf), I _highly_ recommend reading #IsabelJKim’s “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” in this month’s issue of @clarkesworld Magazine: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

Oof.

Cohost is going wild for the hole child, the child that #Omelas puts in the hole.

Cohost is going wild for the hole child, the child that #Omelas puts in the hole.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/#:~:text=You%20are%20going%20to%20run,putting%20kids%20in%20the%20hole.%E2%80%9D if you’ve read Ursula LeGuin’s story, you might want to follow it up with “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim. #Omelas #UrsulaLeGuin #ShortStory

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/#:~:text=You%20are%20going%20to%20run,putting%20kids%20in%20the%20hole.%E2%80%9D if you’ve read Ursula LeGuin’s story, you might want to follow it up with “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim. #Omelas #UrsulaLeGuin #ShortStory

Earlier today, I was thinking about what Twitter has become: A dystopic cesspool of cruel, angry people spreading lies, hate, and misery. This place of horror and pain is sustained by the ego of one man, who can have any material thing he wants and is worshipped by countless devoted admirers.

That arrangement reminded me of something, which finally came to me a couple of hours later. Twitter is the dark mirror of Omelas. And I knew where I was going when I walked away.

#Omelas #Twitter

Earlier today, I was thinking about what Twitter has become: A dystopic cesspool of cruel, angry people spreading lies, hate, and misery. This place of horror and pain is sustained by the ego of one man, who can have any material thing he wants and is worshipped by countless devoted admirers.

That arrangement reminded me of something, which finally came to me a couple of hours later. Twitter is the dark mirror of Omelas. And I knew where I was going when I walked away.

#Omelas #Twitter

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973.

https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf (PDF)

#Omelas #UrsulaKLeGuin #Fiction

@agt @bookstodon I love that story so much (like so much of her other bittersweet wisdom!) Thankyou for sharing, and reminding me! Also, I'd heard that NK Jemisin had written a response to it, but somehow I hadn't gotten around to reading it. So, if anyone isn't aware, here's a link to that (although we probably want to just read the whole book of short stories it's from 😉) #UrsulaLeguin #NKJemisin #Omelas #HashtagsAtTheEnd
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/

@agt @bookstodon I love that story so much (like so much of her other bittersweet wisdom!) Thankyou for sharing, and reminding me! Also, I'd heard that NK Jemisin had written a response to it, but somehow I hadn't gotten around to reading it. So, if anyone isn't aware, here's a link to that (although we probably want to just read the whole book of short stories it's from 😉) #UrsulaLeguin #NKJemisin #Omelas #HashtagsAtTheEnd
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/

I read the short story, "#SpaceTraders", by #DerrickBell thanks to a rec in a thread.

It's well-told and thought provoking; the last line, devastating.

I do wish it had portrayed a United States in an economic situation closer to the 1950's than to the dystopic state of the story so readers today could get caught in their own hypocrisy.

We've always been sacrificed; most of the 85% abide our oppression for their comfort.

"They're evil and selfish"

And you're doing what, exactly?

#Omelas

I read the short story, "#SpaceTraders", by #DerrickBell thanks to a rec in a thread.

It's well-told and thought provoking; the last line, devastating.

I do wish it had portrayed a United States in an economic situation closer to the 1950's than to the dystopic state of the story so readers today could get caught in their own hypocrisy.

We've always been sacrificed; most of the 85% abide our oppression for their comfort.

"They're evil and selfish"

And you're doing what, exactly?

#Omelas

Summary of "Metaeugenics and Metaresistance: From Manufacturing the ‘Includeable Body’ to Walking Away from the Broom Closet

I will start this summary by explaining the title. I usually skip that part. This time I am going to explain the title because the title is so long, and so annoying. In "Academia" (which is just a fancy way to say college), there is a joke about how professors choose titles for their papers. It's not a specific joke. But everyone likes to make fun of titles that go like this "short catchy title": "long title with complicated meaning". I choose this kind of title a lot, because I think it's fun. I don't take myself too seriously.

The first part of this title is "Metaeugenics and Metaresistance". Something-ics is a kind of science, or a way of thinking, like economics, or politics. Eugenics is a way of thinking that says there are good bodies and bad bodies, and that human beings have a moral duty to keep their bodies "good" and to only have children with "good" bodies. Eugenics also says that governments are responsible for making sure their citizens are only people with "good" bodies. Eugenic science was overtly racist and ableist.

Most people believe that eugenics is over. They believe it was a bad science that happened in the past, and that we don't believe in it anymore. The problem with believing eugenics is over is that it makes it hard for you to notice when it is still happening. When more black and Indigenous people die from a virus, some people understand that this is because of racism in medicine. But when more disabled people die, we think it is because their bodies are weaker - That they do not have "good" bodies. The truth is that disabled people are dying more not /just/ because they are vulnerable but also because we made public choices that endanger their lives.

We made these choices because we still believe in good bodies and bad bodies. We still believe that it is everyone's moral duty to make their body as strong as possible. We still believe that some people deserve to die because of the body they are in. This is metaeugenics.

For something to be meta- is for it to exist without being said or written out loud. It is important to be clear that when we say disabled people, we do not mean just white disabled people. Understanding metaeugenics helps us to understand why we are okay with so many disabled people dying. It also helps us to understand that black and Indigenous people are not just vulnerable to racism, but to ableism also, even when they are not disabled in ways that are obvious to us. Because we do not care about disabled people, we allowed black and Indigenous people to be put at greater risk from racism in public health. Metaeugenics can help us understand how racism and ableism work together.

Resistance means to work against something. In this paper I want us to think about the ways we can work against metaeugenics by paying attention to metaresistance. To notice metaresistance, you have to think differently about what you are seeing when you see people resisting something. You have to notice both what someone is directly working against, and also notice how that resistence “speaks” or does resistance against other things that are not clear - like metaeugenics. I will give some examples later.

The next part of the title is “manufacturing the includable body”.

The “includable body” is something disability scholars write about. When we talk about inclusion, we usually mean that society should be open and accessible to everyone, no matter their disability. But when we “do” inclusion, schools and workplaces usually set some rules about what a person must do or be or look like in order to be included. Some scholars that write about this are Tania Titchkosky, Sara María Acevedo, Joe Stramondo, Eunjung Kim, and Anne McGuire. When a disabled child has to “earn” their place in the mainstream classroom by graduating from certain therapies, this means they have been made “includable”.

This is one way we uphold metaeugenics. We make disabled people work to make their bodies “includable” in therapies before we will accommodate them in “mainstream” spaces. Disabled people are morally obligated to make their bodies as “good” as possible, and if they don’t, they are called “non compliant”.

If you know anything about inclusion, you might be a little confused. Inclusion is a right! In the United States, we have the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act which means disabled people have the right to accommodations to access public life, work, and school. Unfortunately, rights and laws do not work without people doing the right thing. Even if you have the "right" to be included, who decides what counts as inclusion?

The problem with rights is that someone else is always in charge of deciding what "counts".

The United Nations has the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). In my paper, I try to explain that when you put these documents together, they show a global metaeugenic attitude toward disability. The CRPD says that disability must be recognized as a natural part of human diversity, but that adult decision makers have the authority to determine the "best interests" of a disabled child. In the CRC, adults are responsible for considering the "best interests of the Child" and children are guaranteed the right to "develop healthily". What does this mean when the child is born into a body that the world declares is "unhealthy" or "disordered"? Basically, a disabled child has the right to be "fixed". Our rights comand us to manufacture an includable body for any person whose body is not "normal".

The final part of this paper's title is "Walking away from the broom closet". Ursula K. le Guin was a famous science fiction author. She wrote a book called "The Ones who Walk away from Omelas". In this book, Omelas was a Utopic society. A utopia is a place where everyone is happy and cared for. In the story, people find out that Omelas's happiness is only possible because there is a child, locked in a broom closet, who takes on all the suffering so that everyone else can be happy.

I think that in the real world, we have lots of broom closets where we make people suffer so that we can have our happy idea of normal. I think prisons are an example of broom closets. I also think that for many disabled children, the "intensive interventions" we force them to do in their "best interests" are a kind of broom closet. They suffer so that we can have our happy idea of a future without disability.

Attitudes toward children can tell us about attitudes toward the future. If we want to ensure our children do not have to be disabled, then we must also want a future where there are no disabled people. The disabled community is large and diverse. There are some conditions which are painful and some people want treatments that help them feel at peace in their own bodies. But that doesn't mean that you can eliminate disability. Disability is a natural part of human life. The society that wants to eliminate disability can only hope to eliminate itself.

I will end this summary with some stories.

On August 2, 2018, NBC News’ Health website published an article praising Google Glass
and researchers at Stanford University for the creation of a wearable app that may improve eye
contact for children with autism (Scher, 2018).
In preschool, [he] struggled socially with other kids. One hit him in the
face with a rubber mallet and another in the shoulder with a metal shovel.
“He didn’t see it coming,” [she] told NBC News. “When you don’t look
kids in the face, you can’t see their reactions or know what to expect.”
When he was 5, he was diagnosed with autism.
[N]ow 9, [he] started working one on one with a therapist using applied
behavioral analysis, a technique to improve social behavior, but [his
mother] saw little progress.
“Nothing really changed,” she said. “Until Google Glass.”

This child was assaulted by his peers. Because he was disabled, the solution was to put him in therapy. To use technology to change his behavior. To put him in a broom closet. So that other people could be happy.

In another project, researchers made a smart watch that would buzz to notify a child that they were behaving inappropriately. In this example, even "hand flapping" was considered inappropriate. At one point, "Child 5" was buzzed. He looked up and noticed that his teacher was too far away to stop him, and he continued flapping his hands. This child is my patron saint of noncompliance. His microresistance, written down in a scientific paper, is a testimony for all to see that the researchers are focusing on the wrong idea.

There are other examples, like the children who run away from robots designed to teach them social skills, or the children who scream at their therapists.

If we pay attention to where our participants are resisting our research, we can learn to recognize these broom closets, unlock the doors, and take these children out of Omelas forever.

https://ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/cjcr/article/view/1976

Hashtag soup
#SciComm #ScholarComm #STS #CDS #HCI #DisabilityStudies #HumanComputerInteraction #HumanRights #ChildrensRights #CRPD #CRC #Metaeugenics #Metaresistance #Eugenics #Omelas #UrsulaKLeGuin #Autism #Disability #DisabilityJustice #TechJustice #Technoableism #ColiberationLab

A long and vaguely nerdy essage in the ol' #weblog about #philosophy and #Omelas and #PascalsWager and #Longtermism and related stuff.

Omelas, Pascal, Roko, and Long-termism https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2022/12/04/omelas-pascal-roko-and-long-termism/

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