First he decides to ask himself whether the jury was actually unjust in its judgment. According to what they had concluded before the discussion, Socrates and Crito both agree that one cannot willfully harm or commit unjust acts knowingly, and therefore one can never do harm in return, since then one would be committing harm knowingly, thus committing an unjust act. “One should never do harm in return, nor harm any man, whatever he may have done to you.” (Plato, Crito 49c) Even if they determined that the sentence was unjust against his previous statement, Socrates thinks that then the law would respond that he agreed to accept the jury's verdict, and therefore anything else would be contrary to his word, and therefore unfair. Therefore, since this is true, they must conclude whether Socrates' leaving will harm other people or whether he will.