Socrates Is Guilty of Arrogance

Mason (an Indeterminate) writes:
Good day my fellow Athenians, we have come to this assembly today to discuss a very important matter and to make an extremely difficult decision that will affect Athens from this day forward. Our fellow citizen Socrates has been charged with the crime of arrogance. One of the greatest minds within our great city-state of Athens and now we have to decide if he is guilty or not.

Now we all know that Socrates is a very arrogant person that prides himself on arguing with people and proving them wrong, but do we not all learn from his arguments. I believe that we can all agree that Socrates is guilty of arrogance. How severe should our punishment for him be though? Do we really want to banish the greatest mind in Athens? I say that we sentence him to a type of community service, such as educating our children, rather than banishing him from Athens. If we banish him from Athens we will be losing one of the greatest minds in the history of Athens and we will also lose one of our greatest educators. If we sentence him to educating our children for free then we will still benefit from his unique mind. We all know that Socrates never paid for his education so why shouldn’t we sentence him to educating our children. Some people will say that Socrates is not guilty of this crime of arrogance, while others will say that he is guilty and should be banished from Athens as a result of his arrogance. I am just a middling farmer and cannot stand to see our different factions never agreeing on the right thing to do. I believe we should all come to a compromise and come to a result that will make all of the factions happy. We cannot afford to lose such a unique person, but we must also punish him for his crime against Athens. This is a very important decision for us and I ask you, my fellow Athenians, to come to an agreeable compromise in deciding the correct punishment for Socrates.