d of good can come out of lying is when it becomes unjust to lie. In book III Plato explains the "noble lie" he is going to tell to the people of his ideal city. The Myth of Metals, he calls it. In the Myth of Metals Plato tells us that All citizens are brothers," Therefore, if anyone attacks the land in which they live, they must plan on its behalf and defend it as their mother and nurse and think of the other citizens as their earthborn brothers. "The myth of Metals also claims that everyone is made up of the same stock, everyone is made up of a metal. The rulers have gold in their veins, the auxiliaries have silver in their veins, and the craftsmen have iron or bronze in their veins. He states that it is possible for gold parents to have silver children and vice versa. If this should happen the child would be placed where they belong because the city would be ruined if some people didnt do the job they were best at doing. ,"The most important command from the god to the rulers is that there is nothing that they must guard better or watch more carefully than the mixture of metals in the souls of the next generation."This myth was intended to teach the citizens that the gods created them to have a certain job and they would not want to go against the job that they were assigned to. The myth purpose was to increase the citizen's loyalty for the city, because they will think that they were made for a specific purpose. This will prevent the rulers from wanting to be craftsmen and the craftsmen from wanting to be rulers. Plato wanted to make sure that the advantages and disadvantages to belonging to a certain "metal" or class would cancel each other out, making everyone happy. This is also why Plato thinks that this type of lie is befitting to tell. Because the lie has "instrumental value" and because Plato believed that everyone had one natural quality that tell do best, the lie actually resembles the truth making it a verbal lie.I think...
