Difficult decisions happen in everyone's life from time to time. These decisions can mean everything to you and even be considered life-or-death situations. Imagine that you are in the shoes of a philosopher named Socrates who is faced with the big decision of whether or not to escape from prison after being sentenced to execution. It was an easy decision for him to make and he supported it with all the ideas he had in his conversation with Crito. Socrates did the right thing by not escaping from prison because if he had escaped he would have contradicted everything he had believed and said, and that would have been the worst possible thing for Socrates. Socrates was one of the few men who refused to escape from prison while he knew he would be punished by death. This was a very noble thing on his part and it was the right decision. During his final days, Crito tried to convince Socrates to flee. Then the two men argued about what was right and what was wrong. Socrates made very strong and convincing statements to support his side. The initial topic that both agreed on was that doing unjust actions is 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 corrupt soul. Socrates is a very convincing speaker and philosopher because of all the good arguments he brings to the table that revolve around his idea of ​​living life rightly. A big reason why he did the right thing by not running away is because an unjust act should not be done to repay an unjust act. He says, “If we should never act unjustly, should we repay injustice with injustice, as the multitude thinks we might do?” to help solidify his argument… middle of paper… life; it was to avoid escaping from prison. This was the right decision even if it would have cost him his life. This was a price he was willing to pay to prove that he really believed in what he said, in all the laws of Athens and in the contract, and the important thing is that he was able to maintain a righteous soul. For Socrates all this was much more important than living life, because his main philosophy was to live life rightly otherwise you are not living life. There were some arguments put forward by Crito to push Socrates to run away, but he argued with Crito and proved that those arguments were not as important as his reputation was at stake. Socrates did the right thing by living a righteous life and taking the poison in the end instead of running away and going against everything he had ever believed. Works cited Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1948.