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If i HAD to live in one of the towns, I would chose the town from The Lottery. The public stoning that goes on yearly in the town is a community event. Everyone is eligible from the drawing, to be executed. Everyone has the same chance, oppose to the town in 'The ones who walk away from Omelas'. Although public stoning is a slow painful, humiliating way to die, their intentions are death rather than torture. To me, the town from The Lottery's sacrifice for harvest makes a bit more sense then a child being kept in a closet their whole life being miserable in order for everyone else in the town's happiness. Although both towns have savage oddities, I would rather chose The Lottery than The ones who walk away from Omelas because I would not want to live in a town who partakes in keeping a child in a closet living in it's own excrement, treating him like an animal at a zoo by paying him visits, all for the towns mindset.
It would be very hard decision to choose to live in either Omelas or the Lottery town. Both towns are very disturbing in their ways of sacrifice. I do not agree with anything that goes on in either town because their reasons for doing such terrible things to people are not valid. For the Lottery they stone a person to death just so they could have a good harvest, which is not guaranteed regardless. In Omelas, they sacrifice the well being of a child for the rest of the city’s happiness, which in reality is caused by drugs (drooz). I cannot make sense of any of their “traditions”, none of which are really valid in my opinion.
If I were put in the position in which I must choose a town to live in, the Lottery town would be the one. The Lottery town is just a very old place stuck in very old traditions. They once thought sacrificing someone was what brought them good harvest. They kill off a person every year for survival, they believe without stoning the person there wouldn’t be a good harvest. In Omelas they torture a child for happiness. Happiness is a state of mind, its something that can go away as quickly as it came. Anyways, who knows if the torture of the child actually brings them happiness. Because they are all on mood enhancing drugs regardless. Omelas’s reason for their terrible tradition is not as valid as the Lottery’s is. Therefore makes my decision somewhat easy to pick the Lottery town.
If I had to survive in either the town of "The Lottery" or "The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas," I would pick Omelas. I do not want to be apart of a town that has such a cruel annual tradition. I would not like to be one of the people who partake in the Lottery. A good sum of people need other people to look down on to make themselves happy. The comfort of someone else suffering can make a human happy.
The town called Omelas has a wicked tradition. To them, a suffering child is the sacrifice they need to make in order to obtain happiness. They all have seen the child suffering but do nothing about it. The only people affected by this are the ones that walk away. Something in them feels the unknown need to get away after seeing the child. Those people are the hope. The people that walk away are the hope that one day this tradition will stop. After a while, the people in Omelas are going to realize there are people disappearing for a reason.
In terms of the towns, the depth of the tradition differs. In the town where the lottery is held, they are one of the few towns who still hold the tradition. The fact that they still have this lottery shows how deep their belief in it is. Even though the people of the town are surrounded by other towns with different traditions, they still hold on to the lottery. On the other hand, Omelas isn't surrounded by different traditions. They grow up not knowing how to question their tradition. For most of them, the tradition feels like the way people live. However, there are the people who see the suffering child and walk away. They walk away because maybe they see how wrong their tradition is. Those people are the hope that their society can change its ways. I would rather live in Omelas because the people can change.
If I have to live in either town that has lottery or omelas, I will live in omelas. In the lottery they have lottery and select the person who is going to die. In the omelas, they put a kid in the dark closet and just give food until the kid die. They think they can have happiness and the kid sacrifice for the whole town. Both towns have really bad tradition when we think about morality.
I will live in omelas because people in the omelas are not really lack of morality. People in the town that has lottery, they have lack of morality compare to people in the omelas. Both towns’ people are having lack of morality. But in the omelas, people feel pity and poor to the kid. They think that maybe they can help the kid. But they think the happiness for whole town is much more important and they can’t act because they don’t have any power to stop the town’s happiness. But people in the lottery, they are doing lottery as their tradition and for fun. They don’t even feel guilty about what they are doing for every year. And make kids to participate the tradition, so can’t make any difference in the future too. In the lottery people lost their morality much more than people in the omelas. And if someone has to live in the place, one of the most important things is their neighbor. Then their neighborhoods are lack of morality, there can’t be cooperative and helpful to each other, and maybe make problems every single day. No one wants to live in that neighbor.
Second, maybe omelas can be better than the world where I live right now. For me I’m not a young kid that has possibility to be locked in the closet. And in the omelas, everyone is happy except the kid in the closet. Someone can say that that’s harm the kid’s own human right. But in the world, there are a lot of things are happening that harms many people’s human right. And even people except that people are not always happy. So maybe one kid sacrifice and the whole town is happy, it will be really nice town to live for me. In the real world many people are sacrificed even they don’t want. Many individuals are sacrificed for their group. For example, because of the government’s policy, many individuals get benefits. But also many individuals get disadvantages form the policy. Somebody has to be sacrificed in the real life. But in the omelas, only one has to be sacrificed and the other people can live their whole life with happiness. For another example, because the countries make the war and many soldiers and their families are sacrificed. So maybe omelas is better than the real world. But lottery is definitely not. If somebody goes to lottery, he has to have fear of death for every year. Even they are not chosen, they have to feel guilty for killing people. When compare omelas and lottery, lottery is worse place to live than the omelas.
In conclusion, if I have to live either town that has lottery or omelas, I will choose omelas because omelas is much better than the lottery in many ways. In my opinion, omelas can be much better for me than the real world. There are bad traditions in both towns. My choice can be really selfish, but I don’t want to die and if I can’t get disadvantage by omelas’ tradition, I will live in omelas. And in the real life, there is lot of things happening to many people and that’s not always me. So it can’t be any different with living in omelas and living in real world. So I prefer omelas than the town has lottery.
Jiheon jun
In today’s society sacrificial ceremonies are highly frowned upon. If it were common belief, though, that the sacrifice of one person’s well-being was worth the supposed well-being of the rest of society, would our world be a different place? This is the question approached by Shirley Jackson and Ursula Le Guin in their stories, “The Lottery” and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” Jackson addresses the question by having a town hold a raffle to pick one citizen to sacrifice in order to have a good harvest that year. Le Guin addresses it by having a whole town’s happiness depend on the constant suffering and torture of one child. If I had to choose to live in either the town from “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson or Omelas from “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin, I would choose to live in the town from “The Lottery” because their sacrifice is much more for the survival of their people rather than just the state of mind they have like in Omelas.
In “The Lottery”, the town holds the lottery that chooses one person to kill in order to have a good harvest and thus help sustain the livelihood of the citizens. They do not view it as a happy event necessarily, but rather just something that must be done. In contrast, the citizens of Omelas are extremely happy and believe that in order for them to stay happy they must keep a young child locked in a broom closet, tortured its entire life. Omelas’s sacrifice seems much more brutal than the town in “The Lottery’s” because they are ruining every aspect of one young child’s life, which they chose to torture without any fair method such as a lottery. The town in “The Lottery,” however, chooses their sacrifice by fair means and kills them quickly rather than dragging out the process to a torturous extent.
The town in “The Lottery” also proves to have more reason to believe that their sacrificial tradition is a legitimate exchange for their survival. They have continued to live and have good harvests because, in their belief, of their lottery. The citizens of Omelas overlook that although they have felt happy with the tortured child, they have also been on a drug, “drooz” that is floating about the town, putting everyone in a euphoric state. If the people of Omelas were not as high on drooz, they may not be as happy as they think, and would realize they completely decimated the life of an innocent child for no real, viable purpose.
The sacrifices both towns make seem extreme and brutal if applied to our society, and neither truly seems fair for people to live in, but the town in “The Lottery” does seem to rank slightly more humane than Omelas. The town in “The Lotter” sacrificed one person, chosen by a fair method, in order to ensure their survival, and put the person being sacrificed out of misery quickly. Omelas, however, chose one child randomly, and forced more pain upon it than would have been forced upon multiple people sacrificed in the town from “The Lottery.” Omelas also had no reasonable basis to believe that their sacrifice actually provided the euphoric sense of mind they all appeared to have considering everyone was also high on drooz.
Julie Wiegel
If I had to live in either the town of the lottery or Omela’s I would not choose the village in the lottery. The people in the town of Omela’s stay in complete relaxation, ecstasy, and happiness which is my ideal world. Although it is all at the cost of one kid’s joy I have to relate his situation to the real world. There are many kid’s today that have lived just the same as the boy in the closet. While everyday people live their lives, cruel things are going to happen in life whether it be torture, starvation, or murder. It is so often that sooner or later these horrible acts are going to overcome the good things in life. Is it right? Of course not, but that’s the world we live in. This town where one child is being tortured compared to our world were thousands of people are being tortured and abused sounds worth living in. While he is sacrificed with being treated poorly the other citizens stay ignorant but with bliss.Their town is thriving and living because of this one child, that is a small price to pay.
Living in the town of the Lottery would be like barely escaping death at least once a year. I would rather live in a town where one person suffers instead of a whole family. Although there is only one person dying, I take into consideration the feelings of his/her family and friends having to kill a loved one. Their reason for killing people for harvest is completely pointless, but they don’t know any better. They were raised to believe that they have to kill at least one person a year to survive and their afraid to break tradition. It is arguable that happiness is only a state of mind, but I’d rather be in a happy state then depressed for eternity. Even with choosing Omela’s I’d still have the option of leaving, although I don’t know where I would go. I get the feeling that I couldn’t leave Lottery’s town because of it’s strict tradition and togetherness. Knowing that every year I’d have the chance of being killed by rocks or locked in a closet, I’d choose the closet.
Being forced to live in either one of these towns is a pretty tough decision to live with no matter which one you choose. Both societies rely on the sacrifice of one for their success as a community. Killing anyone or torturing anyone is a terrible fate to have to keep a community going no matter the cause. In the town in The Lottery they have kept doing "the lottery" despite having forgot numerous traditions it was originally created with, they however knew very well how to do the stoning part. This can cause many questions to arise, on this day of the year they have no sympathy for the person being killed. In the other town they torture one child for a lifetime and another one is randomly picked when that one dies they randomly pick another child to maintain their happiness.
Considering both of the situations I would choose to live in the town from The Lottery for multiple reasons. First off, the reason that they have a yearly lottery and when they have it is to sustain and maintain harvest. "The lottery in June, corn be heavy soon." (The Lottery). This reason makes sense, not that to maintain harvest requires stoning someone yearly, but that their means of doing it is a means of survival. Another reason is that everyone in the town participates in the stoning, therefore the whole town has an equal chance of falling victim to the stoning, this is the fairest way to do this because its not at random and everyone has an equal chance.
I chose not to live in the town from The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas because of the two it stood out to me as more painful and unjust for several reasons. First, their reason for torturing the child was for happiness. This isn't a valid reason, because happiness is a state of mind, you decide whether your happy or not. Also, their happiness was not brought by the child's torture but the presence of "drooz" with fills the town with a sweet smell. Drooz is simply just drugs. Also, the torture in this town is greater than that of The Lottery, because a kid is always chosen as the victim of a lifetime of torture.
The town from the story ‘The Lottery’ and Omelas from ‘The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas’ both have their pros and cons to living there. However the town from ‘The Lottery’ is the preferred place to live.
One would like to live in the town from ‘The Lottery’ rather than Omelas for many reasons. One is because they seem fairly happy. They have friends and families. It seems like the typical town you might see in some suburbs today. They only have one day a year in which bad things happen and that is when the lottery takes place. Even then they don’t seem too torn up about the loss of a life. They see the lottery as a tradition and have lived with it their entire lives so they don’t see anything wrong with it. It’s similar to some traditions people have today. They’ve grown up with them and don’t wish to change them because it’s just what they do.
Another reason why one might want to live in the town from ‘The Lottery’ is because it is similar to some towns today. This is because people are friends with their neighbors and are nice to each other until something bad happens. In the short story ‘The Lottery’ Mrs. Hutchinson draws the slip of paper with the black dot symbolizing she is going to be the one to die. When this happens Mrs. Delacroix picks up the largest stone to help with the beating. At the beginning of the story Mrs. Delacroix had acted like a friend to Mrs. Hutchinson but when it was Mrs. Hutchinson’s turn to die, Mrs. Delacroix didn’t hesitate in taking part in killing her. This is similar to places today because people who seem to be your friend can easily turn on you when something bad comes up. People find it easy to be betrayed, but just as easy to betray someone else.
Olivia Arnold
4th period
“Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time. Perhaps it would be best if you imagined it as your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occasion, for certainly I cannot suit you all” (Le Guin, rohan.sdsu.edu). If I were required to live in the village in “The Lottery” or Omelas, I would opt for the ideal utopian society of Omelas. In “The Lottery”, every 27th of June a sacrificial stoning takes place, earning the title of the story. While in Omelas, in order to maintain the idyllic and jovial way of life, a single individual is tortured for the duration of their life. I would favor Omelas because not only is the punishment at the cost of society’s happiness less fatal, but also, the overall sense of contentment in Omelas is much greater. It would behoove you not to prefer “a magnanimous triumph felt not against some outer enemy but in communion with the finest and fairest in the souls of all men everywhere” (Le Guin, rohan.sdsu.edu).
In both of these towns, society is given advantages at the expense of another’s agony. Done in iniquitous manners, the citizens subconsciously partake in these immoral activities with little to no guilt. In “The Lottery”, by the time a child becomes an adult, it has already taken part in 18 vicious murders, assuming they aren’t unfortunate to be chosen. Although the situation is Omelas is also barbaric, there are fewer lives lost in order to ensure the happiness of the community. Overall, the inclination towards violence is less prevalent in Omelas, with the torture not directly at one’s fault.
The city in “The Lottery” was characterized as an everyday town; nothing extraordinary. Omelas, on the other hand, is described as a paradise; the ideal world, fitting to one’s desires and hopes, containing only a single blemish. If I were to choose between the two, it seems my decision is already made, seeing that the city in “The Lottery” is nothing compared to perfection of Omelas. The general state of Omelas is incomparable to that of anything we could imagine, let alone an everyday town.
“One thing I know there is none of in Omelas is guilt” (Le Guin, rohan.sdsu.edu). – There is a reason for that. Happiness at the expense of one is less sadistic when compared to brutal annual murdering. In addition, the satisfaction of living in Omelas is much more appealing than living in your average village like that in “The Lottery”. The overall package of choosing Omelas would lead to a less guilty, joyful life.
The town I would like to live in would be the Omelas. The Omelas have people who are very smart and happy with everything around them. In the "Lottery" there are people who have traditions they follow every year which is When someone gets a black spot on a paper they have been chosen. It determines whether you will live or not. I want to keep my life as long as I can. Life would be a lot harder than other town in the "Lottery" because people get stoned to death.
Even though in the story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" there is an unfortunate child that locked in a cage for no apparent reason at all. I would feel very bad that the town must keep a child in misery. Though I believe it would be better to live in the Omelas because everything is free to you and there is no type of tradition that requires death. In this story people are not being tormented it is just only one child in the town that is. In the "Lottery" they keep a tradition and in the Omelas nobody keeps a tradition because that is not what is important. The truth is that people are intelligent is one of the main reasons why I prefer the to stay at the Omelas.
If I had to choose where to live in either the town in which "the lottery" takes place or the town of Omelas I would choose to live in the town with the lottery. Both towns have extremely grim situations and I would not voluntarily live in either of them, but because I have to choose it is not Omelas.
In the town with the lottery I feel that the cause they are fighting for is more reasonable and important but with the town of Omelas they are fighting for something fake that the people can only realistically have when they are on drugs which in my opinion is not worth sacrificing Someone for. It would be a horrifying thing to kill a parent or child by stoning them to death but the town honestly thinks that it is what is best for everyone. With the town of Omelas they continuously torture one innocent child for "happiness".
Between the town from The Lottery and Omelas i would rather live in Omelas. Living with guilt is much easier than living with fear (as the people from the town of the Lottery do). In Omelas the people do not regularly remember their happiness is coming from a child's suffering, allowing them to live at most moments without guilt whether they are on or off drooz. However in the town of The Lottery as the people begin to realize the slaughter is unnecessary but uncontrollable their fear will grow.
The guilt which occasionally does appear when living in Omelas will be difficult to ignore, if it does defeat me i have the option to leave. In the town of The Lottery there is nothing mentioned about leaving but there also is nothing mentioned about consequences, and judging from the ignorance portrayed during the stoning the towns punishment for deserters could be much worse. Fear would be much more difficult to live with, and the understanding that you or your family members could be next.
The two choices we have been given-living forever in Omelas or the town from the Lottery-are both more or less fates worse than death. It is obvious that the more selfish option would be to live in Omelas, where every person lives in (albeit false) happiness, but at a terrible price. There is little personal risk involved in residing in Omelas, and the drugs that are presumably in the very air they breathe keep most of the citizens carefree, able to go about their daily lives in peace despite the cruelty that is happening in their midst. The Lottery, however, is something that not only everyone is at risk of winning, but the entire town is directly involved in the gruesome ritual, even the children. It would seem impossible to shake such a thing from one’s conscience.
If I were forced to choose, however, I would live out the rest of my life as a citizen of the town in the lottery. My morality would render me unable to bear knowing that something as cruel as the torture of a child was being carried out by the government of the town I counted myself a part of. The only way I would be able to tolerate a situation like that were if the drugs really did get into my head, and this serves only to make Omelas even less appealing in my eyes. I don’t think that anyone who would have a clear conscience in a situation like that deserves to call themselves human.
The deal-breaker for me, however, is the glimpse of humanity we see in the residents of the town in the Lottery. They have begun to question the ritual, and this makes me believe that it is possible for them to overcome the tradition in time. The story does state that other towns have gotten rid of it-the new generation is becoming stronger than the last, and I believe that this glimmer of hope would allow me to keep in touch with reality while living in the town. I would do all in my power to subtly lead the other residents of the town to see what a truly pointless tradition the lottery really is, and in doing so save myself from becoming something truly ugly.
Both of the towns would be a harsh community to live in. If I personally had to choose where to live I would pick "The Lottery" town over Omelas. My reason for that would be due to they stoned someome so they'd have good harvest that year and I'd be able to live with that. Unlike in Omelas they tortured someone in a closet just so everyone could have happiness and that's crazy to me. "The Lottery" town would be better living in than Omelas.
If I had to live in one town, I would choose to live in the town that the story "The Lottery" takes place in. The annual stoning, which occurs once a year, every year on the same day, is what the people in the town grew up knowing. It was not a situation that was looked down upon, at least this is what we as readers are led to believe. A "fair" drawing is led by Mr. Summer's and is assisted by Mr. Grave. the chances of getting picked is fair for everyone in the town, unlike the town of Omelas. The choice between Omelas and the town in "The Lottery" is essentially "happiness" versus "survival due to good harvest."
I chose to live in the town in which "The Lottery" takes place in because sacrificing one for the good of the community, and saving hundreds of lives, seems reasonable at the very least as everyone in the town has the same chance of getting picked as the next person. In Omelas, people sacrifice one for the happiness of the rest, but as for the town in "The Lottery" people are sacrificing for a good harvest which will save hundreds of people. I think "The Lottery" is better because happiness is something that one can make up. You can seem happy and joyful, yet feel depressed all the same. Happiness is only an emotion. One may become happy because they just got a new toy or the latest Wii game, and not because someone was sacrificed for them. This is the reason that I chose the town in "The Lottery."
If i were in the situations these people in the two stories were in, i would choose to live in Omelas. I would choose Omelas because the way the people lived wouldn't really affect me. Even though they were cruel to a young child, there wasn't a chance for me to be stoned to death.
I would choose these conditions because i don't like the idea of being killed. Even though i chose Omelas doesn't mean i couldn't be one of the ones to walk away. I would choose to live there for some time but eventually walk away because i wouldn't be a able to stand the thought of those people being cruel to a young child.
The options given to live in a town that chooses someone to be sacrificed every year randomly or to be in a town that the people do drugs and put a child through misery are both pretty bad. Even though they are both awful places to put yourself i would choose to be in Omelas. Its selfish to think of it that way , but thats the human way and i believe given the circumstances many would choose Omelas.
Between the two towns, either Omelas or the town in which The Lottery takes place in, the preferable choice would be The latter of the two. Compared to Omelas, this town seems like a dream. While their of Omelas is filled with the intoxicating scent of drooz and the streets are littered with an overwhelming sexual desire, the town of The Lottery seems normal.
In The Lottery, at least one just knows that the tradition is for the pure sake of tradition, compared to Omelas where the child is chosen at random, regardless of family background. And the chances of being drawn for The Lottery are very slim and actual have a purpose, Omelas is for a much darker and sinister use.
i would personly perfer to live in Omelas because of two main reasons. one is that i do not want to be a person that throws stones and kills innocent people. Even though it is for sacrafice that is still not what i would want to do. secondly i would not want to live there because i would have a possibility that i would be stoned and that just does not seem to be that nice of a death even though i will starve in the other i would rather do that because my guess is getting hit with stones hurts alot and that is constant pain until you die.
The town from the lottery and omelas are both horrible places to live but if I had to choose one or the other I would go with the town form the lottery mainly because the only reason they kill one person every summer was to ensure a good harvest for the rest of the year. I think the sacrifice of one person is alright if it ensures the safety of the rest of the group. Unlike the lottery the city omelas tortures a little kid for the happiness of others and the kid has to suffer his whole entire life. Also the people are not truly happy; they get superficial pleasures by things such as drugs that they breathe.
The town I would rather live in is Omelas. This is because in the lottery you would die. The people in Omelas are all happy and don't have any problems. Though there's one person who suffers for everyone else's happiness, the majority of the people don't have any problems in their life.
The lottery is not a town I would like to live in because there's a less likely chance that I would survive living there. This is because one person a year dies as a sacrifice for growing crops. In Omelas there's one person who is tortured and that person is chosen once they are born and is tortured for their whole, life. There is a more likely chance of Irving in Omelas. In Omelas you wouldn't have to live in fear that one day each year you could be chosen for a sacrifice like in the lottery. Omelas is a much happier place with a better chance of surviving.
If I had to live in one town I would choose Omelas. I would choose this town because there is only one person who gets killed instead of one every year. The reason the person gets killed is for a good crop season. Now if they have a bad crop season this could lead to more people being stoned in order for them to have a better season.
Omelas just has the one boy who is tortured instead of many people. The boy is tortured in many nasty ways but if I did live there i would try to help set the boy free even though it would be useless because he is already incapable of doing so much.
Both towns are terrible and have the worst traditions but i think Omelas would be the better of the two to live in especially if you can turn your head from the disgrace to humanity.
I would live in Omelas because I could get away from all of the things going on in the town. If I lived in the town with the lottery, there would be a chance that I would die every year. In Omelas, the person in the basement would most likely already be there and I could leave if I disagreed with the ways of the village.
In Omelas there are multiple ways to not care about the crazy stuff that goes on there. You could take drooz and be in a complete trance. You could also just ignore it or you could leave the city. In the lottery town you can't leave.
- anthony Zaniolo
If I get to choose one of the town, I will choose the Omelas. In my point of view, as a member of the town, people who have been chose must feel really bad. Compare to the "Lottery" town, the select quality is between the kids , the good thing is those adults don't have the fear of being choose, if I can luckily avoid to been chose by them , I have no fear of living in the freaking cage or box.
Another major reason I would rather live in Omelas is I would not die from living in the small basement thing. I am not indicate that the " Lottery " town lottery is going to kill the one they select, but I can assume that is going to let people die. Although the isolation treatment in Omelas will mentally hurt and damage my mind and communicating skill, even my philosophy of life. But time will heal the pain! If I lose my life, it's not going to come back! This is my reason!
When attempting to choose between these two cities, one has many choices to make. He or she could choose Omelas, where eternal happiness reigns because of the suffering of a poor, innocent child; or choose the Lottery town, a small, friendly village that seems normal when really its survival depends on the annual sacrifice of a citizen, chosen through a drawing. The Lottery town seems to need the lottery for a good harvest, making it a necessity. Omelas, however, uses the suffering of this child not to survive but rather for the increase of their own happiness.
My decision hinged on whether I preferred to keep my morals intact while at a greater risk of physical suffering, or to enjoy life at the cost of another's, which in turn would destroy my morals. The euphoria in the town of Omelas is definitely tempting. But I could never enjoy a life like that knowing the pain that the innocent child is going through. For such an act to go unpunished, it would have to be for an important reason, not for the selfish cause of the continuous gay feelings spread across Omelas.
Which is why would choose the Lottery town. Like the torture of the child in Omelas, the lottery is a tradition grandfathered into the town. Although it may not be right, just, or fair, the reasoning behind it makes much more sense than the tradition of Omelas. The lottery is a sacrifice made by the town in order for the gods to provide the farmers with a successful harvest allowing the citizens to prosper. This seemingly worthy cause, and also because the entirety of the town is participating in the lottery, would make me feel much less guilty about the death of the lottery's winner than the torture of the child of Omelas.
I would never sacrifice someone else's life for a selfish reason such as eternal happiness. Even if it means that I have to participate in the lottery every year, I'm afraid I would still rather live in the lottery town than Omelas.
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