The people of Omelas operate under the principle of Utilitarianism by the opinion that the suffering of one child hurts less people than the good of thousands of happy citizens, “they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their harvest and the kindly weathers of their skies, depend wholly on this child's abominable misery” (Le Guin). Utilitarianism concerns itself with the consequences of an action. Here, in the story, the action of maltreating a child is not judeged, but only the resulting happiness for everyone else justifies the act through Utility. The belief that the act is judged as oppose to the consequence is called a Kantian
The people of Omelas operate under the principle of Utilitarianism by the opinion that the suffering of one child hurts less people than the good of thousands of happy citizens, “they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their harvest and the kindly weathers of their skies, depend wholly on this child's abominable misery” (Le Guin). Utilitarianism concerns itself with the consequences of an action. Here, in the story, the action of maltreating a child is not judeged, but only the resulting happiness for everyone else justifies the act through Utility. The belief that the act is judged as oppose to the consequence is called a Kantian