“Tell us what complaint you have to make against us which justifies you in attempting to destroy us and the Sta…”

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Tell us what complaint you have to make against us which justifies you in attempting to destroy us and the State? In the first place did we not bring you into existence? ...[S]ince you were brought into the world and nurtured and educated by us, can you deny in the first place that you are our child and slave, as your fathers were before you?

— Plato

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