From: Cory Przybyla (recherchetenet@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 01:26:39 MST
--- Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> wrote:
> Cory writes
>
> > I've never read in a history book of an invaded
> > land...and I mean close enough proximity to see,
> > where people were holding a peace protest and
> > not scrambling for their lives. Am I wrong?
>
> Yes. Athens in the Peloponnesian War:
>
> While Spartan forces were marauding the countryside
> around Athens, the asshole Socrates and others were
> saying everything pro-Sparta that they could think
> of. A certain playwright was advocating peace and
> disarmament in his theatrical productions.
Well, I stand corrected. Any good references, or
details on this event? I didn't study really any
ancient Greecian history, but as I recall Socrates
didn't write any books, and his followers only
documented things in their aftermaths.
> The worst crime of it was that a number of people
> were listening to Socrates, and applauding those
> productions, and this at a time when Spartan
> tyranny was well-known. So next time some loony
> leftist seems to be going beyond all reason, just
> remember that so did "the wisest of them all".
the wisest of all leftists, or the wisest of all
humans?
> Alas, some people's emotions, healthy prejudices,
> and natural human common sense are simply broken.
Well, actually he didn't die until a later trial which
even then he could have chosen to flee rather than
become an intellectual martyr, so until I find out
more of his motives, and the scenario, I can't say for
certain that Socrates common sense was really broken.
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