Plato's three pieces in the book, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, focused on the accusation, trial, and death of Socrates. Euthyphro focused on Euthyphro accusing his father of murder for killing a slave with enforces that justice needs to be for everyone, by everyone. The Apology focused on the trial and how Socrates tried to convince everyone he didn't not manipulate the youth. Lastly, in Crito, Socrates refuses to escape prison because he has been sentenced to death.

s founded on equal rights for all and justice for all. In Euthyphro, Euthyphro put his own father on trail for murder. While he is telling Socrates, who can't believe the claim, Socrates asks of the man Euthyphro's father killed, "Was this man ... A relative of yours? ... You would have never prosecuted your father for the murder of a stranger" (Plato 3). Socrates is wrong. Euthyphro did not care who the man his father killed was, he still killed someone. According to the Athenian law of the day, if you killed someone justly, it was OK, unjustly, it was murder. Euthyphro explains that when one man kills another "if unjustly, you must indict him for murder, even though he share your hearth and sit at your table" (Plato 4). Euthyphro was more concerned about justice for everyone than any other bond, even when it came to his father. That is justice. When one man is willing to prosecute a friend, or even more, a family member for what is right, they are standing up for justice everywhere. Euthyphro's father bound a slave and left him for dead, thus the slave died. According to justice, then and now, he is still responsible for the death of that man, and therefore he is punishable by law if found guilty. For justice to be fair to anyone, it must be fair to everyone.

There are many obligations to living in a democratic society. This society really is made up of people and cannot function without at least a majority of the people participating. Freedom is the freedom to have your voice heard and to participate. Justice means that every person, no matter who they are, where they are from, or what they look like, has the right to a trial where his/her fate is decided by their peers. Obligations to this society include things like voting, serving on the jury, and signing up for the draft. These things may seem like a rather large contribution to society, however, after our ancestors gave their lives for our chance at this freedom, the least we can do is participate.

Martin Luther King Jr. Was also put on trail by the state because they were afraid of him. In Letters from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. explains how he was sent to jail for parading in a protest parade without a permit to do so

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