If I were to be living in a cave my whole life I would definitely want to see what the outside world is like. Even though I would have ignorance about what the outside world is. The shadows and the echo’s the two people from Plato hear in the story is definitely something I would want to explore. Just the fact knowing that there is another life would be very interesting because you never know if the life out there is better or worse. The only thing you can do is imagine it. Sacrates and Glaucon for example in the story were just so curious about what the outside world is like and since they were prisoners they didn’t have a chance to explore out there. The only thing they were able to do was hear objects and see shadows moving. They thought the only thing that was able to see is shadows because they never had the chance to see actual humans or any life out in the world. A great fear of living in a cave and exploring out in the world is that since the naked eye has never reveled any kind of light the sight would be really terrible but the only thing to do is take the risk and continue.
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