Do you think socrates death was justified?
You misunderstood the story, it seems. Socrates was put to death after Athens was released and he was ACCUSED of impiety and professing falsehood to the youth, corrupting them and making appear the worst cause as being the best. And, to speak truly, he wasn’t an atheist at all, though he did not conceived the divine as they did; this, he even established it logically and prove Meletus to have falsely accused him. But, in his usual manner, he did not bother about flattering the assembly as the others did, even speaking of them as being ignorant and declaring that the right judgement should be that of sending him where they send their helpful and older men, to be certain that he can continue to reflect and help the Athenians without having also to bother about food or the like. They reacted to his speech very fiercely and violently; they condemn him to death, for the humiliation he brought them so often and the words he held and that they couldn’t refute. Also, if you understood anything
Probably one of the more unjust of them all, but then again I think he was even the choice to drink poison or go into exile, he chose poison. Corrupting the youth I believe was the charge. They killed him because he was saying things they didn’t want people to hear. There is a reason we have something called freedom of speech, it is to stop these kind of things. Killing someone over what they believe and say is always unjust even if the person holds some disgusting views and says horrible things (not that that was the case with Socrates to my knowledge). Everyone has the right to an opinion and we have to respect that, but we don’t have to respect them or there opinion just there right to believe whatever they want.
