Plato's Unjust Laws

Unjust Laws in Today’s World In Crito, Plato’s arguments do show that those who have been treated unjustly still have an obligation to obey the cities laws. Socrates talks to Crito about why he should follow the laws and not escape from the Athens prison. He uses two main arguments to get to this conclusion; the parent argument and the agreement argument. Unlike the world when Crito was written; I do not think his arguments would work in today’s world. I don’t think people today are willing to just accept what the government would say in any situation that deals with an unjust ruling. People are more likely to question why something is happening and will be more determined to set things right with what happened whether it was right or wrong.
In Crito, he says that Socrates must do this because the laws say that if he escaped then the government and all the court rulings would mean nothings, since people could just leave the city. The laws also say that they are responsible for the birth of Socrates. They say this because it was through the city that Socrates parents got married and eventually gave birth to him. The laws say that they gave Socrates his education; they also fed him and sheltered him. Because of this the laws say that he is their offspring and servant. Socrates agrees with the laws; the laws go on to ask Socrates if it is right for him to retaliate against the city if they are like his parents and Socrates has to tell them no. Another point that the laws bring up is that Socrates had the chance to leave the city when he became an adult. When he did not leave he basically signed an unwritten contract saying that he has to follow. These arguments made by the law to support the conclusion that people who are treated unjustly have an obligation to follow the law. All of the arguments have thought and reasons as to why the people of Athens are children of the city and how they signed a contract when they decided to stay in the
These people might say that the only way prove that you have been treated unjustly is to legally get evidence or whatever is needed to prove that this was the case. However, thinking that you have an obligation to follow the law could get someone killed like in the case with Socrates. Other people might argue that if you were treated unjustly there is no way to prove it through legal means and that the only way to do so is to break laws. This would be similar to the case in the TV show prison break. Where a man is wrongly accused of murder and is on death row; the only way to prove that he was set up is to escape from prison to get himself more