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I’m sorry but executing some one because you dislike their ideas doesn’t silence them or discredit them. It makes them a martyr and makes others very curious about was so bad about their ideas. Want to combat a harmful idea? Debate it, talk about it and work to find the truth underneath the idea.

Socrates and Euthyphro's conversation of what is pious and what is impious, to me at least, lead nowhere. It seemed like Socrates knew the answer to the question he posed to Euthyphro but wanted Euthyphro to say the answer that Socrates specifically wanted to hear. Perhaps as a way to challenge Meletus' indictment by saying: "Look here, this man agrees with me."

Reading Parmenides.
The sign of an intelligent and understanding mind is the ability to take the complex and distill it into a simpler form that any lay-man can understand.
The sign of a fraud is taking the simple and making it so complex that not even god could make sense of it. What the heck did Parmenides say?

Finished with The Symposium. Now onto Parmenides.

Hmm, Socrates speaking about love, it's like a tortoise describing the feeling of flying. He was a real jerk to his wife, whom he married married because she was from a well-off family and he decided he was too important to work. I'll say it again, he does have good points at times but that doesn't mean I have to like him.