cyber day 3 3/19/20

the Athenian commanders didn't pick up the fallen soldiers from out of the boat during the storm. when they returned they thought they were going to be praised but instead thrown in jail. speakers wanted them tried and executed for what they have done. Socrates was the one man we know of that tried to calm the assembly. He alone and against the serious and furious public that it was the wrong thing to do and he was going against it. he went along with what his mind told him was right. but he was only one voice against everyone and could not change their mind, in the end the commanders were forced to drink poisonous hemlock for their death. it was a terrible lost to Athens wars moving forward. Socrates doesn't go along with what the society says because it wasn't what he thought was right, in this situation he thought it was wrong to put them men to death even thought everyone else was thinking the opposite. he stands up for what he believes in not just following in everyone else's foot steps.

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