another question like to ask I said. someone like that came ‘There’s I’d you,’ ‘Suppose back down into the cave and took up his old seat. he find, coming straight in from the Wouldn’t sunlight, that his eyes were swamped by the darkness?’ he ‘I am sure would.’ suppose he had to go back to distinguishing the shadows, in competition with those ‘And who had never stopped being prisoners. Before his eyes had grown accustomed to the dark, while he see properly—and this period of acclimatisation would be anything but still couldn’t he be a laughing-stock? it be said of him that he had come back from his Wouldn’t journey to the upper world with his eyesight destroyed, and that it to go wasn’t worth even trying up there? As for anyone who tried to set them free, and take them up there, if they could somehow get their hands on him and kill him, they do just that? wouldn’t he said. ‘They certainly would,’ Why would the prisoners laugh at the former prisoner? Why would they want to kill him? Why do people ridicule those who challenge their way of thinking? Why do people want to kill those who think as they do? Give examples of historical figures who were don’t ridiculed or killed for challenging the customs, laws, or the conventional wisdom and knowledge of their day.
‘There’s another question I’d like to ask you,’ I said. ‘Suppose someone like that came back down into the cave and took up his old seat. Wouldn’t he find, coming straight in from the sunlight, that his eyes were swamped by the darkness?’ ‘I am sure he would.’ ‘And suppose he had to go back to distinguishing the shadows, in competition with those who had never stopped being prisoners. Before his eyes had grown accustomed to the dark, while he still couldn’t see properly—and this period of acclimatisation would be anything but he be a laughing-stock? Wouldn’t it be said of him that he had come back from his journey to the upper world with his eyesight destroyed, and that it wasn’t worth even trying to go up there? As for anyone who tried to set them free, and take them up there, if they could somehow get their hands on him and kill him, wouldn’t they do just that? ‘They certainly would,’ he said. Why would the prisoners laugh at the former prisoner? Why would they want to kill him? Why do people ridicule those who challenge their way of thinking? Why do people want to kill those who don’t think as they do? Give examples of historical figures who were ridiculed or killed for challenging the customs, laws, or the conventional wisdom and knowledge of their day.
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