Do you think Socrates got what he deserved? Why didn't he accept exile?
I think Socrates didn't deserve what happened to him at all. It wasn't like he put the Athenians in the situation they were in, they put themselves there. The only reason they did what they did to him was because he was a man of logic, who thought things through and who was smarter than most of the Athenians, therefore, they wanted to get rid of him and blame someone for what had happened to them. Socrates didn't accept exile because he believed that his principles didn't fit with exile, and he was more willing to stay true to his principles then to take the easy way out and accept exile.
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