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Re:Willingness to look stupid by bambax on Thursday October 21, 2021 @10:18AM (#28944782)
> The esteemed philosopher was sentenced to death because he was deliberately annoying people

No. Socrates was executed because he was associated with the worst rulers that the city of Athens had ever known, all former students of his, who notably went on to kill thousands of Athenian citizens (not enemies, strangers, or slaves), following the defeat in the Peloponnesian War.

After the tyrants were killed and democracy was restored, general amnesty law was granted to anyone involved except the Thirty Tyrants themselves and their direct aides. However resentment, understandably, remained.

> There was a lot of bad blood between the people of Athens and Socrates’ followers. That wouldn’t have been enough by itself. But the murder of between 5% and 15% of the citizen population in 404 must have pushed things over the edge. Imagine if Osama bin Laden, Timothy McVeigh, and Saddam Hussein had all had the same person as their ethics teacher: would you be very surprised if that person got harsh treatment from a jury? And would you then call that person a martyr?

http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2016/04/socrates-1-did-soc...

Re:Willingness to look stupid by nescioquid on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:00AM (#28945429)
Well, he was executed because when asked what punishment seemed just to Socrates, he said he should be given free meals (like the Olympic champions), rather than suggesting a fine of 50 minas. So Hemlock it was.
Re:Willingness to look stupid by marcosdumay on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:33AM (#28945947)
Yeah, there's some people that when faced to what they believe is an injustice go all in and decide the world is entirely unjust and there's no point on defending from anything, because the result is already set. See Galileo for another example.

I guess there's some platonic happiness in thinking you have it all figured out.

Re:Willingness to look stupid by tk75x on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:43AM (#28946134)
> between 5% and 15% of the citizen population in 404...

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