The Tradition Goes On

Each and every day, many people are killed. Some are killed because of their
race, some are killed because of their beliefs, and others are killed for
absolutely no reason at all. It has not just been recently that people have been
killing each other – this has been going on since the cavemen (who killed each
other for survival). If questioned whether society today is capable of
prosecuting someone for their beliefs or “philosophies”, one would certainly
have to say that society today is even more than capable of doing so. In Plato’s
myth of the cave, the people that would try to ascend to the light (and reach
the domain of true knowledge) would be killed. Two philosophers, Socrates and
Hypatia, were killed for trying to reach this domain. People in society today
kill others for no reason at all – so what would stop them for killing someone
who has beliefs that threaten their own?

In Plato’s myth of the cave, one person was pulled from their chains and exposed...