https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/fsvzh8/aita_for_questioning_everything/
created by Sokrates_of_Athens on 01/04/2020 at 08:44 UTC
378 upvotes, 17 top-level comments (showing 17)
I am Sokrates, son of Sophroniskos, of the deme Alopeke. AITA?
Comment by DanKensington at 01/04/2020 at 09:51 UTC
222 upvotes, 2 direct replies
YTA, because *goddangit Sokrates I just want to buy some goddang olive oil, quit making me question whether it really is goddang olive oil*
Comment by AristophanesOfAthens at 01/04/2020 at 08:52 UTC
157 upvotes, 1 direct replies
INFO: Well, that's a hard question to answer. By what criteria would you define a person as an asshole? Personally, I'd define an asshole as the thing that emits the clouds of gas when one farts, but I feel you're using a different definition.
Comment by Menon_of_Thessaly at 01/04/2020 at 12:15 UTC
55 upvotes, 1 direct replies
INFO: What is virtue?
Comment by MentalEngineer at 01/04/2020 at 16:55 UTC
41 upvotes, 1 direct replies
YTA. 2500 years after you died, your students' recordings of your bullshit propelled me into a career that's even more of a dead end than yours! Yes, sponging off your wife's family and crashing people's dinner parties pays better than actually teaching students about philosophy. I half suspect the real reason you were executed is that Plato set you up once he figured this out.
Comment by dangerbird2 at 01/04/2020 at 13:51 UTC
41 upvotes, 1 direct replies
YTA. Stop corrupting the morals of our young men and eat your hemlock!
Comment by TheProcess1010 at 01/04/2020 at 10:43 UTC
33 upvotes, 0 direct replies
NAH: As Bill and Ted put it as you talked to them, “The only true wisdom consists of knowing you know nothing.” Ask away and party on, dude!
Comment by HeyIAmInfinity at 01/04/2020 at 09:35 UTC
26 upvotes, 1 direct replies
YTA: why would you keep questioning everything?
The truth can only be found by questioning what’s unknown and knowing what not to question.
Or a person that keep questioning will waste time and never get an useful answer, an answer that can be used to ask more questions.
Comment by EdgelordDiogenes at 01/04/2020 at 20:28 UTC
22 upvotes, 0 direct replies
YTA for telling Plato what you think defines a man. He's spreading it now, and refuses to acknowledge my chicken.
Comment by Armadylspark at 01/04/2020 at 14:10 UTC
20 upvotes, 1 direct replies
NTA, if only because the oracle told me that some guy called Diogenes will be way worse some day.
Comment by Justin_123456 at 01/04/2020 at 18:02 UTC*
13 upvotes, 1 direct replies
YTA. I don’t like the effect your questions are having on the City and it’s youth.
Most of your questions seem to be “Democracy, do we need it” and “Isn’t Sparta great.”
That’s not philosophy, that’s treason.
Comment by [deleted] at 01/04/2020 at 17:44 UTC*
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The first clue that YTA is when your peers force you to drink hemlock.
Comment by pythiadelphine at 01/04/2020 at 15:55 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Nah. You’re the wisest of Greeks. Hit me up later.
Comment by Gankom at 01/04/2020 at 16:37 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
YTA. Sokrates my dude you just need to child. Pull up a seat, quiet down for a bit, and just blaze my man.
Comment by the_nameuser at 01/04/2020 at 15:58 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
YTA, stop corrupting the youth of Athens, dammit!
Comment by KrozJr_UK at 01/04/2020 at 12:55 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
YTA. Why are you questioning everything? Why do you think you are an asshole? What is the meaning of life? If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? How many beans make five? What is the capital of Australia? How many roads must a man walk down? What’s 6x9? Why is the word ‘asshole’ a word? Could I keep asking these questions all day? Has this joke died now?
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1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
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Comment by jsb217118 at 03/04/2020 at 04:47 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
YTA get a godsdammed job and look after your wife and kids. Don’t stand around annoying people with stupid questions.