Is the suffering of a child justified, if it maintains the felicity of an entire city? This is the moral dilemma that The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin asks its readers to consider. While on the face of it perhaps an abstract thought experiment, this question remains politically relevant in our current environment, especially as we contend with both unparalleled levels of both prosperity and suffering across the world. Ultimately, our answer to this question defines the political objectives that we must strive toward and the type of society we want to build.