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  21.  @aaronmicalowe  Society pays for the value provided. What kind of adults do you end up with when you train kids to rely on government for basic societal functions? If you educate kids to be sovereign and use more critical thinking than submission to authority, then your method of teaching will be more attractive…to wealth. The Sophists were much sought after because they taught the ruling class how to control the masses through emotional rhetoric. Socrates spoke truth to this Power by advocating for rational discourse which ran counter to Sophistry. If critical thinking would free a population, who would be compelled to silence/execute Socrates? Better question: who would benefit most from Socrates failing to free the minds of society? The answer to both is answered in his execution. If critical thinking is beneficial for society, the. Socrates should live. So Sophistry was used convince society that Socrates should be executed. In Socrates’ sacrifice, he proved his point. If you can access a larger group of people’s emotions, you can convince the to strip a single citizens’s right to Speak; his right to defend himself; his Right to Life. Now look at today. Who is calling for codifying laws based on emotional rhetoric? Who is calling people -istaphobes for disagreeing when they exercise their Freedom to Speak? Who is calling to strip people of their right to defend themselves? Who uses weeks of video footage to convict a teenager in the court of public opinion only to correct the story using far less effort that was used to attack him unjustly in the first place? Which side is calling for consideration of “lived experience” when determining when harm was done?
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