Re:Willingness to look stupid
by medstrom on Thursday October 21, 2021 @08:26AM
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Going by Wikipedia, it's not agreed why exactly he was executed, but you don't execute someone for being annoying. The official charges were impiety and "corrupting the youth". Probably some political groups felt threatened by the idea of lots of people turning to a different set of ethics or starting to distrust authority.
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> but you don't execute someone for being annoying
Of course you do, you just wait until you have a more ethically "usable" argument than that, you build a solid case, then you have a mock trial and a fully expected conviction.
It was as true 2500 years ago as it is today.
His students and friends took power once before and instituted dictatorship with help of Sparta (enemy city). Killed and tortured opposition, then were taken down in contra revolution.
So yeah, "different set of ethics or starting to distrust authority" but no necessary in a nice way.