The suffering of some can bring joy to many. The social norms can make people sense of Right and wrong very deluded as shown in the story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula K. LeGuin. Abusing a child and not letting him out of the locked home is the price of Happiness of the people of town. The superstition in a society makes its people to abuse others as in Omelas their believe that Prosperity and beauty and delight will be destroyed if let the child live a normal life, given food, and sunlight.The happiness should not cost another person's life. In society today millions of people live on the earth that makes it difficult to please all of them however most of them can be pleased even if cost abuse of few. The tone of the story is happy at the beginning and in the middle informative. The story by LeGuin is similar to the movie Conan the Destroyer by Richard Fleischer because Conan the hero in the movie leads a magician,Caption, a fool, and princes to get treasure which will bring statue in to life if placed on its fore head. The happiness and prosperity would return to the kingdom. Princess tries to sacrifice her life for happiness of her people but Conan saves her and kill the statue which turned into a Monster. The happiness of many and suffering of some is not right concept which is prevalent in both movie and short story because nobody would like that he be abused so other can be happy. Education of people would make it easy to eradicate these kind of concepts in society for the well being of everyone.
Is _Conan The Destoyer_ an Arnold Schwartzenegger movie? (Not that it matters). This is an interesting connection.
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