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Against The Athenians and Socrates Alike

From The Complete Works of Straton of Stageira:

In killing a philosopher for asking questions they did not like, the Athenians committed themselves to a tragedy with an ironic ending. Some will say that his true crime was his friendship with Alcibiades, the shameless deceiver of idiots and buffoons, and the insipid brute Critias, and that he was executed as an enemy of democracy.

That he was the latter can hardly be denied, for Socrates asked not too many questions, but too few, or he would not have survived the rule of the Thirty Tyrants. Yet in the end he got what he had asked for: a tyrannical decision made by would-be wise men against the spirit of freedom, which he obeyed like a knave. And the Athenians, in fulfilling his wishes, strangled the roots of democracy while seeking to preserve it.

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Miranda: Ouch! No wonder Straton wasn't popular!

Athena: People who speak the truth at all times rarely are.

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