{"id":71,"date":"2024-11-13T22:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T22:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caira.dcreate.domains\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2025-05-07T06:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:58:46","slug":"moodle-post-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/caira.dcreate.domains\/?page_id=71","title":{"rendered":"Moodle 1: How to Reason\/Argue About Justice?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Utilitarianism in Omelas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How is Le Guin\u2019s story connected to our topic?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Can you think of any contemporary situations that are similar in structure to Omelas? What is your own position in those situations?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le Guin&#8217;s story <em>Omelas <\/em>is a literary interpretation of utilitarian practices within a \u201cutopian\u201d society. In this false Utopia Le Guin creates, there is one child who faces all the terror and horror of the world in order to provide happiness for an entire society. This story directly ties into our topic of utilitarianism. The Greatest Happiness Principle states the right actions to follow are the ones that maximize pleasure over pain. So within the story of Omelas the child is the minimization of that pain because it&#8217;s all constricted to that one person, which seems to justify the happiness of an entire society if only one person has to suffer. The idea of utilitarianism isn\u2019t only to maximize pleasure but to find the most efficient route there. Even if for the people of Omelas this was the only way I don\u2019t believe it&#8217;s justifiable. I personally don\u2019t find this justified because of the subjectivity of happiness, there&#8217;s no set bar or provision being doled out to the community, ensuring that everyone gets at least a certain level of happiness, so how can the immense suffering of one person be so ensured and so deliberate.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would be very hypocritical to not acknowledge the benefit of my own life because of the suffering of others. An example that comes to mind is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where children and adults labor to collect cobalt for lithium ion batteries. These batteries are used to power electric vehicles, phones, solar panels, laptops, etc. Some of these items like personal technologies are our own devices that make our lives easier and overall happier, and electric vehicles and alternative energy sources are supposed to be investments in our futures. Yet, it still doesn\u2019t feel right to do at the expense of people just because they are cheaper labor. A utilitarian would probably say that this is what brings the best benefit to society in the most efficient way, but this way of thinking is inhumane, because the most efficient way to get to a desired outcome shouldn&#8217;t be at the expense of human lives. The existence of America is built off of the trans-atlantic slave trade, so our country has never known anything other than the dehumanization of people as a means for progress and that can only bring a society so far before they have to pursue a different course.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Work Citied <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bentham, Jeremy. <em>An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation<\/em>. Batoche Books, 2000.<br><br>Le Guin, Ursula K. <em>The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas<\/em>. Alternate World Recordings, 1976.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utilitarianism in Omelas Le Guin&#8217;s story Omelas is a literary interpretation of utilitarian practices within a \u201cutopian\u201d society. In this false Utopia Le Guin creates, there is one child who faces all the terror and horror of the world in order to provide happiness for an entire society. 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