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Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for corrupting the youth. Voting Athenians likely thought of him as a sophist who were encouraging many mens' sons at the time to learn rhetoric so as to debate any position independent of truth. Sons flocking to learned individuals also undermined the traditional role of fathers as teachers of their sons. To add to this Socratese was the tutor of a particularly strong general who defected to the Spartans.