much fun, as we all know—all that telling the truth and paying back our debts. So if justice is admirable, it can’t be because it’s pleasant; it must be because it’s beneficial (475c). With unjust things it will be the opposite. Since they’re shameful, they must be either unpleasant or harmful, or both. Obviously, being an unjust tyrant isn’t unpleasant—in fact, it’s a non-stop orgy of pleasure, what with all the feasting and chuckling as one devises new and innovative ways to put one’s enemies to death. So if injustice is shameful, it can only be because it’s harmful. Thus, people who do
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