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Smithalicious on Oct 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)

>I've noticed that it's fairly common for people to resent the Socratic approach being used on them Socrates famously got sentenced to death for being too obnoxious, after all

watwut on Oct 19, 2020 [–]

It is tad more complicated then that. It was not just being obnoxious, it had to do with politics and previous bloody dictatorships by his students.

It was miscarriage of justice using pretext. But the core reason was not pure obnoxiousness.

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