At one point during the speech Socrates imagines the laws of Athens, the Laws say, "For, after having brought you into the world, nurtured and educated you, and given you and every other citizen a share in every good we had to give, we further give the right to every Athenian, if he does not like us when he has come of age and has seen the ways of the city, he may go wherever else he pleases and
take his goods with him." This argument implies that
A) since Socrates stayed in Athens, he stayed involuntarily.
B) if you leave Athens, you must still obey her laws.
C) if one voluntarily enjoys the benefits of a state, one assumes obligations to obey its laws.
D) Socrates was not free to leave Athens when he came of age.
C
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