There are places where silence keeps you among your own, and telling the truth makes you a traitor. When you must testify to what is right even at the cost of the group that raised you, will you choose comfortable belonging or an uneasy conscience?
THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS
To avoid loss, do I choose to join quietly in wrongdoing rather than to suffer it?
THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER · ORIGINAL
τὸ ἀδικεῖν τοῦ ἀδικεῖσθαι κάκιον
📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER
To do wrong is worse than to suffer wrong.
💡 TL;DR
Socrates overturned the common sense of the many.
📝The Classic Answers
Socrates overturned the common sense of the many. People count suffering wrong as the greatest loss, but he held that doing wrong is the true loss, the one that sickens the soul. Staying among the group through silence is easy, yet that ease leaves a wound within. The price of the witness stand is high. Still, I choose to fear the loss that breaks me from within more than the loss inflicted from without.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
If there is a wrong you mean to pass over in silence today, write in one line whether that silence protects you or erodes you.
📖 Classic Source:
Socrates (Plato, Gorgias).
Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
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