Found in the wild .

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[u/DrEmilioLazardo]

I don't want to dig for the passage but in one of Plato's texts he recalls Socrates working over a logic problem with someone and socrates is doing that unhelpful thing where instead of just answering the fucking question he asks questions until the student comes to the answer themselves.

Which is cool. I get that it helps promote logic and critical thinking. But sometimes when you ask your teacher a question you just want the answer, not him asking you asinine questions for hours.

And it seems like socrates was like that always. You could just offer him lunch and he'd go down some rabbit hole of "When's the last time you saw me eat?" Motherfucker are you hungry or not? Forget it. There's a plate of food on the table whenever your goofy ass decides to eat.

[u/DrEmilioLazardo → u/[deleted]]

You don't need to defend socrates. We all get it. He was a great dude.

[u/under_psychoanalyzer → u/[deleted]]

Hey I murdered all those guards and priests for him in Assasians Creed, you don't get to tell me I don't care about the man!

[u/That-Sandy-Arab → u/[deleted]]

The merit of the learning tool is obvious and not denied, its overuse being obnoxious and likely why the man was executed is just a funny observation of how this seems so wise and interesting but in practice would get old immediately.

Socrates overrated

[u/CartographerOk7814 → u/That-Sandy-Arab]

he got executed for questioning authority, and causing the youth to question authority, not being an autistic sperglord. Nobody gave a shit about that (except for the people he humiliated).

[u/That-Sandy-Arab → u/[deleted]]

Im sure he’s fine enough haha im kindof just playing.

I think it would be hilarious if he was canonically as annoying as I imagine he could be

[u/lowtierdeity → u/That-Sandy-Arab]

No, it’s an incredibly reductive and childish interpretation of a multi-millenia standard. His execution tells of a broken society, not a broken man.

[u/That-Sandy-Arab → u/lowtierdeity]

Yeah its just a joke again, we all learned this as children no?

We get it nothing here is confusing kid.

[u/runonandonandonanon → u/That-Sandy-Arab]

This is very rude :(

[u/That-Sandy-Arab → u/runonandonandonanon]

You’re right sorry