An idea from The Trial and Death of Socrates

When you train for a sport, you follow the one coach who knows, not the crowd. Right and wrong work the same way. The only question was whether escaping would be just, since “not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued”.

From The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato

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