Thoughts on Today's Class Discussion

           In today's class, we talked about Socrates, and his trial. Socrates was put on trial for corrupting the youth, and for not believing in the Greek Gods. We discussed whether or not we thought he was guilty thinking like ancient Greeks, and students in a classroom. As an ancient Greek the charges against Socrates were highly punishable, and his defense was relatively bad. When the class voted on whether we thought he was guilty or not as Greeks it was six for innocence and thirteen for guilty. As students in a modern class we found the charges against him to be unimportant and not illegal with today's laws. The voted was unanimous for him to be innocent. Apparently our class thought like the Greeks with the first vote, because Socrates was sentenced to death. When it came time for Socrates to be killed, he bravely drank the poison hemlock and suffered a horrible death.