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He wasn't exactly ordered to commit suicide. The government charged him for inspiring and encouraging people to study philosophy and speak for themselves in a time when the Greecian government was extremely controlling and didn't want anyone to question their rulers or the way things were around them. He confessed guilty to the charges, and they offered to let him go if he stopped questioning people and how things worked, and encouraging others to do the same. He claimed that "an unexamined life is not one worth living" and so they sentenced him to death. He was then forced to drink hemlock, a form of poison.
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In the radical democracy of Athens, where the male population directed the affairs of state by mass votes in the fortnightly Assembly, it was very disturbing to have someone promoting independent individual thought. Socrates had a distinguished life as a hard working tradesman, member of the army and leadership in government, but this encouragement of disruptive individuality was not compatible with the way things ran in democratic Athens.
He was given the option of retraction, and when he refused was convicted by a popular court of 500 jurors representing the broad range of the people of Athens, and sentenced to death. He was given the merciful option of suicide to the normal sentence of having his throat cut and thrown in a waste pit. He chose the suicide exit.
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