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@sherlock_holmes the way I see it, it's very hard to interpret the Omelas story as anything other than a fable pointing out hypocrisy (the presumed hypocrisy of the reader but also of the author)

the story depends on the assumption that people *can* walk away from Omelas, but it never mentions where they're walking to, which doesn't really reflect the way things work in reality

what does it mean to leave? I can't walk away from my country of birth, because no other country will let me in without something like a work permit or a visa sponsor, which are only available to people who haven't walked away! if I walk away from my job and my mortgage, I'm considered a vagrant, which is illegal, and I get arrested

if walking away were a thing you could actually do, I suspect people would do it! but society is structured in such a way that ensures it can't ever actually be walked away from