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Good Man v. Good Citizen: Plato’s View When Plato writes about the struggle between the “good person” and the “good citizen” in The Last Days of Socrates, there seems to be an overlapping of the two because they are so closely related. Socrates says that “[A man] has only one thing to consider in performing any action; that is whether he is acting justly or unjustly, like a good man or a bad one” (…

…an unjust law should be proven unjust to the State, not simply disregarded. My opinion follows closely with Plato’s. My view having been shaped by a free, democratic society, laws which infringe upon a person’s civil liberties should be challenged in a court of law according to its merit in the security of the society. Other than that, I believe a person who lives in a nation should always submit to its laws.