After reading the following selection from Plato’s The Republic, the view of justice is illustrated from the point that even a just man can be proven unjust. In the story of Gyges’ ring it explains how if two men, one morally just and one morally unjust, had rings to become invisible and could commit any crime without being caught then you wouldn’t be able to identify which is which in the outcome because the twos situations would be the same…unjust. Without fear of being caught, there is no reason as to why they’d be scared to steal or commit other crimes. I agree that if the fear of punishment was nonexistent then everyone would end up doing unjust acts. The reason that there are laws are to keep everyone from doing the wrong thing and
