In Plato’s The Republic, justice is depicted as a major part in a perfect society. Justice is said to breed a good society, whereas injustice will breed a bad one. Plato defines justice in dialogue as “keeping what is properly one’s own and doing one’s own job.” (Pg. 146) Under the rules set for this perfect society, people are to practice the one profession at which they perform best. This profession also corresponds to a certain social class. Under no circumstances can one change this profession. Along with a set occupation, Plato has also determined that the perfect community would regulate what children (and the community) are taught, and to what the children will be exposed. In Plato’s perfect society, regulating the stories, songs, poems, and actions told to children is meant to enforce the standard of how people should act, think, and believe. Plato states that his “first business is to supervise the production of stories, and choose only those we think suitable, and reject the rest.” (Pg.72) This theory seems to have certain advantages. When a person is exposed to one uniform way to live, he or she will live that certain way because that is the only way he or she knows how. Suppose a person is exposed to certain injustices that others commit. Plato feels that this exposure will plant a sort of seed inside a person’s head. Thus leading him or her to commit an injustice of the same kind, or simply increasing the chance that a person will commit a similar act. However, there is a huge hypocrisy (or disadvantage) within this theory. With Plato’s definition of justice, a person should keep what is his or her own. Some would say that person’s history is also their own. People have a right to know their history, and the truths about their community. Plato wants to take away passages in stories, lines within songs, and make all characters in plays perfect. This, in itse...