Omelas

Wow..okay. The idea of locking up one child in a basement just as a reminder to treat the rest well is twisted. If the society needs a constant reminder to be nice, they need thereapy. The town sounded nice, with its music and colors and smiles and such but then they talk about the child in the tool closet. I wish they told us why that child was chosen. Why that child alone must suffer in isolation. Maybe that child commited a crime.. or maybe that child was born with a defect. Along that line of thinking, if the child wasnt beautiful would it be locked away so noone could see it? If so, that is just wrong. In each persons imperfection there is beauty.