An idea from The Republic

Glaucon restates a view he doesn’t hold: people are just only out of fear. A shepherd named Gyges finds a ring that makes him invisible, and uses it to seduce the queen, kill the king and take the kingdom. Given that ring, a just man would do the same.

From The Republic by Plato

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