Ath. Will you make a distinction, then, between voluntary and involuntary wrongdoings, and are we to enact heavier penalties for the crimes and wrongdoings that are voluntary, and lighter penalties for the others? Or shall we enact equal penalties for all, on the view that there is no such thing as a voluntary act of injustice?
Clinias
Clin. What you say, Stranger, is quite right: so what use are we to make of our present arguments?
Athenian
Ath. A very proper question! The use we shall make of them, to begin with, is this—