 In the Crito Socrates states the doctrines most important to his conception of the ethical life. He will give up his life rather than compromise his ethics. His peers would all agree that life is not worth living with a badly deformed body; they should agree that life is even less worth living with the deformation of something more important than the body—in other dialogues identified as the soul. Acting wrongly causes serious injury to the soul. That is why Socrates believes we must strive to avoid wrongdoing at all costs.