The unexamined life is not worth living

[Denver_2010]

"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates said that at his trial for heresy. He was on trial for encouraging his students to challenge the accepted beliefs of the time and think for themselves. The sentence was death but Socrates had the option of suggesting an alternative punishment. He could have chosen life in prison or exile, and would likely have avoided death.

But Socrates believed that these alternatives would rob him of the only thing that made life useful... Examining the world around him and discussing how to make the world a better place. The result, of course, is that they had no alternative and were forced to vote for a punishment of death.

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We can choose to examine ourselves and discuss how we make ourselves better people... better spouses.

OR

We can choose the easier alternative...

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Denver