The question that arises in Plato's Euthyphro is should people be immune from popular moral belief if they do something that is good and also bad, such as murdering a murderer. In Euthyphro, his father committed the crime of murder, and his claim was that it was just and that the murdered man had killed a slave. Euthyphro's response to this is that it doesn't matter because his father murdered and that is against the law. ... The way that Plato is making Euthyphro think is, for lack of a better term, an "ideal" frame of mind. ...

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