Socrates: Very well. Viewing it, then, in the humane light of what we would require for ourselves if we got into it, the average prison is unworthy of our present-day civilization.
Thrasymachus: Absolutely.
Socrates: The Missouri prison is so bad that one must question the advisability of living in Missouri and running the usual risk of prison at all.
Glaucon: Undoubtedly.
Socrates: Probably that is what is the matter with Missouri.
Glaucon: As like as not.
Socrates: Other things being equal, people would rather live in some State where the prison facilities are more up-to-date.
Thrasymachus: Of course they would.
Socrates: Good, Thrasymachus! Now let us get up in the stand and see if we can’t help our own courage to do some of the things that ought to be done.