History has enough examples of authorities taking the extreme action of taking the life of a person with valid and forceful new ideas. Socrates, the father of Greek philosophy, was put on trial for impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens. He challenged anyone's thinking through his endless and circular Socratic dialogues, and he publicly questioned the gods Athenians worshiped at the time. Socrates chose to stay on principle after he was found guilty by an Athenian jury. The death sentence of Socrates was the legal consequence of asking politico-philosophic questions of his students, from which resulted in the two accusations of moral corruption and of impiety. At trial, the majority voted to convict him of the two charges and agreed to a sentence of death to be executed by Socrates drinking a poisonous beverage of
History has enough examples of authorities taking the extreme action of taking the life of a person with valid and forceful new ideas. Socrates, the father of Greek philosophy, was put on trial for impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens. He challenged anyone's thinking through his endless and circular Socratic dialogues, and he publicly questioned the gods Athenians worshiped at the time. Socrates chose to stay on principle after he was found guilty by an Athenian jury. The death sentence of Socrates was the legal consequence of asking politico-philosophic questions of his students, from which resulted in the two accusations of moral corruption and of impiety. At trial, the majority voted to convict him of the two charges and agreed to a sentence of death to be executed by Socrates drinking a poisonous beverage of