Social Norms As Weaponized Forces – Um-Helat & Omelas Case Study
KEY: "each utopia’s 'solution' to
sustaining the ideal society is written as the utopia’s unsettling 'flaw'... Omelas and Um-Helat
diverge in their means of upholding utopia with distinct core principles but converge toward a
similar end goal: Utopian compliance and continuance at the cost of another’s expense."