The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas By Ursula Le Guin

The Dangers of Losing Compassion or Empathy It’s common for people to choose not to be benevolent or sensitive to other people’s feelings, but it carries a personal cost. People who try to suppress their feelings end up acting immoral. There are actually several other dangers to subduing feelings of compassion. It is dangerous to lose compassion or empathy for others because one can lose his/her sense of what’s right or wrong and can justify inhumane actions.
Some people think that losing compassion or empathy for others is the way the world works but, in fact, it’s dangerous to lose compassion because one can justify inhumane actions. In the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin, the people justify the child being locked in a basement by saying even if the child is taken
In the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the story takes place on Venus where the Sun is seen every 7 years. There’s a girl named Margot, who lived on Earth for a while before coming to Venus, so she remembers the Sun and it’s happiness. She realizes that she’s “different and [the other children] [know] her difference and [keep] away,” (Bradbury 2).
They lack compassion for Margot by avoiding her. Instead of trying to celebrate her differences, they lock her in a closet. They are “[hearing] her muffled cries. Then smiling, they turned and went out and back down the tunnel, just as the teacher arrives,” (3). They don’t comprehend what they did was unacceptable and harmful to Margot. They acted immorally towards Margot because they thought that it was fair that she doesn’t get to the see the Sun again since she already did once. Now, the other children evened out the playing field by acting horribly. People don’t realize what’s right or wrong when they lose compassion for others. They think it’s fair to act terribly towards other