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Which of the following reasons for not listening to the majority does Socrates NOT give to Crito:
{ 1 } - Really reasonable people will believe that the facts are exactly as they are.
{ 2 } - The majority do not have an unlimited capacity for harm.
{ 3 } - The majority do not have an unlimited capacity for good.
{ 4 } - One ought to follow the opinion of the expert rather than that of the majority.
{ 5 } - The majority cannot kill him.
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Which of the following reasons for not listening to the majority does Socrates NOT give to Crito:
{ 1 } - Really reasonable people will believe that the facts are exactly as they are.
{ 2 } - The majority do not have an unlimited capacity for harm.
{ 3 } - The majority do not have an unlimited capacity for good.
{ 4 } - One ought to follow the opinion of the expert rather than that of the majority.
{ 5 } - The majority cannot kill him.
See 44c. "The most reasonable people, to whom one should pay more attention, will believe that things were done as they were done."
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Which of the following reasons for not listening to the majority does Socrates NOT give to Crito:
{ 1 } - Really reasonable people will believe that the facts are exactly as they are.
{ 2 } - The majority do not have an unlimited capacity for harm.
{ 3 } - The majority do not have an unlimited capacity for good.
{ 4 } - One ought to follow the opinion of the expert rather than that of the majority.
{ 5 } - The majority cannot kill him.
See 44d. "Would that the majority could inflict the greatest evils, for they would then be capable of the greatest good, and that would be fine, but now they cannot do either. They cannot make a man either wise or foolish, but they inflict things haphazardly."
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Which of the following reasons for not listening to the majority does Socrates NOT give to Crito:
{ 1 } - Really reasonable people will believe that the facts are exactly as they are.
{ 2 } - The majority do not have an unlimited capacity for harm.
{ 3 } - The majority do not have an unlimited capacity for good.
{ 4 } - One ought to follow the opinion of the expert rather than that of the majority.
{ 5 } - The majority cannot kill him.
See 44d.
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Which of the following reasons for not listening to the majority does Socrates NOT give to Crito:
{ 1 } - Really reasonable people will believe that the facts are exactly as they are.
{ 2 } - The majority do not have an unlimited capacity for harm.
{ 3 } - The majority do not have an unlimited capacity for good.
{ 4 } - One ought to follow the opinion of the expert rather than that of the majority.
{ 5 } - The majority cannot kill him.
See 47a-48a, especially 48a: "We should not then think so much of what the majority will say about us, but what he will say who understands justice and injustice, the one, that is, and the truth itself."
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Which of the following reasons for not listening to the majority does Socrates NOT give to Crito:
{ 1 } - Really reasonable people will believe that the facts are exactly as they are.
{ 2 } - The majority do not have an unlimited capacity for harm.
{ 3 } - The majority do not have an unlimited capacity for good.
{ 4 } - One ought to follow the opinion of the expert rather than that of the majority.
{ 5 } - The majority cannot kill him.
Obviously the majority can kill him, and Socrates does not deny this. See 44d. "You see, Socrates, that one must also pay attention to the opinion of the majority. your present situation makes clear that the majority can inflict not the least but pretty well the greatest evils if one is slandered among them," and Socrates' comment in 48a: "But," someone might say, "the many are able to put us to death."
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