Difficult decisions arise from time to time in everyone's life. These decisions can mean everything to you and even be considered life or death situations. Imagine yourself in the shoes of a philosopher named Socrates who faces an important decision: whether or not to escape from prison after being sentenced to execution. For him, it was an easy decision to make and he based it on all the ideas he had during his conversation with Crito. Socrates made the right choice by not escaping from prison, because if he had escaped, he would contradict everything he had believed and said, and that would be the worst thing possible for Socrates. Socrates was one of the few men who refused to escape from prison even though he knew he would be punished by death. It was a very noble thing on his part and it was the right decision. During his last days, Crito tried to convince Socrates to escape. Then the two men had a discussion about what was right and wrong. Socrates made some very convincing statements to support his point of view. The initial argument that they both agreed on was that unjust actions are not good and people should not act unjustly. Acting unjustly harms people's souls and this is unacceptable to Socrates. It makes no sense for him to live with a corrupted soul. Socrates is a very compelling speaker and philosopher because of all the good arguments he makes around his idea of ​​living life justly. One of the main reasons why he did the right thing by not escaping is because an unjust act should not be done to pay back for an unjust act. He said: “If we should never act unjustly, should we repay injustice with injustice, as the multitude think? » to help solidify his argument...... middle of paper ......life; it was so as not to escape prison. It was the right decision even if it cost him his life. It was a price he was willing to pay to show that he truly believed in what he said, in all the laws of Athens and in the contract, and the bottom line is that he was able to maintain a righteous soul. For Socrates, all of this was much more important than living life, because his main philosophy was to live life justly, otherwise one does not live life. Crito made some arguments to get Socrates to escape, but he argued with Crito and showed that these arguments were not as important as his reputation at stake. Socrates did the right thing by living a righteous life and accepting the poison in the end instead of just escaping and going against everything he ever believed in. Works Cited Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1948.