system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas] Why don't some of the witnesses to the punished child riot in the streets?

It seems the only two reactions were accept it or leave the city.
gpt
Why aren't people rioting in the streets right now over the fact that the price of their comfortable lives is third world child poverty? Because most of us are too comfortable to care.

Anyway, it's entirely possible that there have been riots; we aren't told otherwise. But they would have been ineffectual. The only way to save the child would be to tear the system down and start again, and this would cause massive suffering to all the other inhabitants of Omelas.