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In addition to my last comment, here a some responses from a different post (reddit.com/r/negativeut…)
3. "The people with horrible lives that will be created until we achieve utopia are the kid in the basement."
4. "The problem with this argument is that it doesn't recognize the fact that societies and civilizations go through cycles of b…
In addition to my last comment, here a some responses from a different post (https://www.reddit.com/r/negativeutilitarians/comments/1gl5m9g/dont_valorize_the_void/)
3. "The people with horrible lives that will be created until we achieve utopia are the kid in the basement."
4. "The problem with this argument is that it doesn't recognize the fact that societies and civilizations go through cycles of booms and bust, do even if we achieve "utopia" it's would be unwise to assume that we would not regress again."
I agree with #3. Omelas is a very good place, and it's deeply irrational to condemn it. We can demonstrate this by noting that from behind a veil of ignorance, where you had an equal chance to be any affected individual (including the kid in the basement), it would be prudent to gamble on Omelas. Far better than any real society that has ever existed; and also better than embracing the void and not existing at all.
#4 doesn't understand thought experiments.