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making the children spectators of war.
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Children will be taken, he seems to suggest,
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to battles and to sites of where fighting is going on,
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to be spectators for them to become used to and habituated to
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seeing war and what everything that goes on.
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Not only is expulsion from the ranks of the guardians
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penalty for cowardice,
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but Socrates suggests there should be, listen to this,
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"erotic rewards for those who excel in bravery."
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Erotic rewards for excellence in bravery.
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Consider the following remarkable proposal at 468c,
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"and I add to the laws of war," Socrates writes,