How Socrates Died Week 1 Post 10

I enjoyed the book about the death of Socrates, and I noticed that while he claims always to be ignorant, he is actually smarter than the people he speaks to.  This is because he asks them the right questions, and deducing a good answer from them, but always being able to find the flaws in their argument.  With Euthyphro, he constantly seeks a definition of piety that Euthyphro cannot explain, making Euthyphro look like a moron.  Socrates derives knowledge from other people, but only knowledge that he knows has no contradictions or flaws in logic.  He professes to not know anything, but only because he is looking for a genuine, unbreakable truth.

 

            I don't agree with the idea Plato gives, however, when he writes about how one should always follow the laws of the state.  His reasons are important, though, and it is true that when a society does not follow the laws and customs that hold it together, it falls apart and worse predicaments happen where anarchy and lawlessness ensue.  Admittedly, it is better to have a society that doesn't always work than not having one at all.  But when the society is going against basic human rights, like the Nazis, I don't think I could uphold the laws of a state that did the things they did.  People have the right to exist, and to express themselves.