DANGER

As of late, I've been meditating quite frequently on Plato's Apology a very specific passage.

“Aren't you ashamed to have lived the kind of life which now is placing you in mortal danger?”

To which Socrates responds,

“My friend, if you think a man who is worth something ought to calculate the risk of living and dying instead of considering only whether he is acting justly or unjustly or whether his deeds are that of a good man or a bad one.”

Well, I have considered this in so many ways because there is a concept of if I am a good man, if I'm playing the good guy game, there's always going to be a bad guy.

If you're being considerate, kind, cordial, soft... You're a rube, you're a pushover, and you will be easily crushed by those who will do anything.

But I dare to think of the concept in which one is willing to do anything to get ahead. Someone who does not view morals as that of something that is valuable.
Someone who will do anything to get the woman, to get the money, to get the house, to get the power...He will do anything. And that means he will do...anything.

Shifting sands is not a firm foundation to build a house.

And so I've been thinking that it is not just that one must live a moral life because others can see it. Or that one has morals so they can wear their moral badge and show, look, I am moral. No, no, no. I believe the lack of morality looks weak...because it's rooted in fear.

You'll do anything, anything to keep the title, to keep the job, to keep the woman, to get the money, to hold the power...You'll do anything...So you'll do anything.

One has frantic fear, scarcity attached to it, and the other has freedom, curiosity, and abundance. Having morals does not make you weak. It shows your discipline. It shows fortitude, stability.

Thus, I have been meditating on the strength of living a life not rooted in fear.