re: Socrates got what he deserved.
He thought so. His regard for the law was so great that he drank his Hemlock in spite of the escape clauses being offered him and like the Dylan song goes, said "I won't back down." Hey, that should make Socrates a Republican hero---he stayed the course.
Funny that an educated man thinks death the proper remedy for disagreement with the political heirarchy, the passage of arbitrary laws and trumped up spurious charges? So Socrates was leading the youth of Athens astray? Death is the obvious answer. Athens had lost to Sparta, so admiring their winning qualities is a capital offense? Come on now.
Publius