This story appears to be begin with someone describing of a place that is full of happy people. This place is described to be so nice that it can be considered fall away or even an imagined place. The story continues to describe the town of Omelas and how wonderful it is but it then starts to describe the situation of one boy. This boy is confined to one room, fed corn and grease a day, sits in his own waste, and no one can talk to him. It is described that this boy’s suffering is the harsh reason for Omelas’ prospering town. Many people come to view the child as well as he stays in his cell. Most people leave with anger but as time goes on, they forget or provide justification to the situation the child is in. Some people even leave the town after seeing the child as well. I think this is a way of saying that for every good thing we see, there is some dark truth behind it. Some people that find out the truth can’t handle and leave or they learn to cope with the truth, to make sense of it or provide reasoning.

The story is for sure very interesting and I like the author’s style on how he chose to write. I would recommend to a friend for discussion as well as to see what idea they get from it.

I think it raises some questions. To note one is do I try to run away from a dark truth myself? I do not think it makes any references to my life, studies or community.

I think those that chose to leave are people that can handle the situation of the child, they use the utilitarian idea where the suffering of one is helping the whole town prosper. Those that chose to leave are people that most likely value the child’s life and future much more, a life is a life. However, since they know they could not possibly change anything they can only choose to leave.

I would leave as well. Like some, I do not think I could live in that town knowing the sole reason it is doing so well. Just knowing all of the smiles and laughter is due to this one child’s suffering and a horrible suffering at that.

In real world situation I think how some companies use cheaper labor resources would bring a luxury to the greater society as in more people in this society can experience the luxury because it is not cheaper. I think “leaving” in this situation would mean choosing not to use that luxury that everyone else is using. For example clothes made from a country like China. The clothes would be much more expensive if made by people in Canada or the US so by letting China which has a cheaper labor force do it, it makes it cheaper for our society. “Leaving” would mean to not support this company by not buying their clothes, while “staying” of course means you will continue to buy and wear their clothes.

I would most likely continue to buy and wear the clothes. Since I do not experience the harsh labor directly I think my mind if more at ease of it.

Hi everyone I am Virack, I major in Computer Science and I enjoy eating rice and beef.

I expect to learn about how ethics works in the field of technology.

I only attend the second day of this session so therefore I will only be able to discuss half of the content for this blog.

During the session we talked about the types of conflicts which included 4 types. Pathway, Mutually exclusive, Distributive, and value conflict. We also continued to talk about the level of intensities for conflicts which includes normal, pervasive, and overt levels.

I enjoyed the activity where we try to come up with four words to describe computers as a whole class. It was my favorite because it was a challenging activity in the sense that we had 2 mins to complete and getting a whole classroom to decide on 4 words is tough. I think overall I enjoy how it makes me engage with the class content more.

The four words in the 4W builder were information, communication, connected, and efficient.

I think these activities are introduced to this course because it helps the people that are usually shy or not as engaged to become less shy and speak their minds more. This would result in a better learning experience.