Drinking the Hemlock

Socrates was sentenced to death by suicide for challenging the status quo, and refusing to recant his position. He did so by drinking a tea of hemlock leaves, a popular poison of the time. Those who reject Political Correctness today also challenge an accepted status quo.

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