Socrates Persuades Glaucon by telling him it will not be hard for them to descend and is the right thing to do. Socrates wants to reassure Glaucon that “ there is no injustice” to tell the enlightened to descend into the “ general underground abode.” Socrates goes on to imply that descension is to “ have a care and providence”. Socrates here is saying many things: it is not wrong to tell philosophers to descend, it will be easy to compel them to descend, and third, he is in a sense guilt-tripping Glaucon and the philosophers. He guilt trips in the way parents guilt-trip there children to talk to there family member, especially the elder ones. Furthermore, Socrates again reinforces the easiness of descending by appealing to the ego of Glaucon
