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You stated previously that Socrates was killed by an authoritarian regime that killed lots of other people. That is false. You're now stating that the Athenian

You stated previously that Socrates was killed by an authoritarian regime that killed lots of other people. That is false. You're now stating that the Athenian government was violently overthrown with lots of killing in the process, which is also false. The Athenian democracy was overthrown legally and with words and laws. I'm also not sure what you mean now that the founding US philosophy was used to justify violence. Things like westward expansion is what I imagine you're referencing, but that had nothing to do with the political philosophy of the founding of the nation.

watwut 8y ago
I mixed them up when writing first comment. Don't take my issue with it, google trial of socrates either on wiki or on more historical sites. Read on thirty tyrants. Overthrown democracy for some months with help of Sparta, followed persecutions of opposition, then got overthrown back. This part of story is in most of them, only artistic ones limit themselves to the simple one. Teritory is one thing, south and west. Freedom and property rights theories were developed and used to argume for slavery expansion and slavery itself. Freedom and destiny no matter what you are about to do, not just the big questions but also the smaller conflicts around. Both sides of civil war said to fight for freedom too and the affair had huge number of deaths.