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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: sometimes not a good?
POLUS: Certainly.
SOCRATES: About that you and I may be supposed to agree?
POLUS: Yes.
SOCRATES: Tell me, then, when do you say that they are good and when that
they are evil--what principle do you lay down?
POLUS: I would rather, Socrates, that you should answer as well as ask
that question.
SOCRATES: Well, Polus, since you would rather have the answer from me, I
say that they are good when they are just, and evil when they are unjust.
POLUS: You are hard of refutation, Socrates, but might not a child refute
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