Le Guin states, “At times one of the adolescent girls or boys who go to see the child does not go home to weep or rage, does not, in fact, go home at all…They keep walking, and walk straight out of the city of Omelas, through the beautiful gates”(350). As revealed, some people were not able to cope with the idea of their happy lives to be built upon the pain of an innocent child because they know that is morally wrong. The ethical dilemma, the people of Omela face is a tough situation indeed, but people have the right to do the right thing, as Thoreau mentions,
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the