will you walk away? - december 19

I was studying English, and I came back to the story of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursala Le Guin, and once again realized what an incredible story it is. It is the story of a Utopian society whose survival depends on the existence of a child who is locked in a small room and mistreated. Although all of the citizens of Omelas are aware of the child's situation, most of them accept that their happiness is dependent on the child's "abominable misery." Sometimes, however, a few people, after visiting the child and seeing the deplorable conditions under which it lives, leave Omelas forever.
This story can be seen as a parallel to the current society in which we live, although an extreme one. We do not live in a total Utopian society, and yet a large amount of the luxuries that we enjoy are at the expense of others who are less fortunate than us. One example of this would be capitalism. Just like the story when we first encounter the reality of these injustices we are shocked and bothered, but we ussually rationalize it and then accept it as the way society works.
There are the few that can never accept this "false" happiness, and decide to walk away from Omelas. They cannot accept that their happiness is dependant on those who suffer. It is not an easy journey, for they are going against the grain, ussually traveling alone. In our current situation, it is hard to stand up for the injustices that are happening, to leave this city and take a stand. We feel so helpless because we are only one person and feel so inadequate to change the many injustices in our world. It is possible to obtain a better world? Is it possible to walk away? Will you walk away?