"The great masquerade of evil has devastated all our ethical concepts. That evil appears disguised as light, charity, historical necessity or social justice is quite disconcerting to anyone who is brought upon our traditional ethical concepts.” Evil should have no place in the name or in the eyes of the law except because the law does justice to the evil that has been committed. Law is there to protect and ensure equality and justice for all people they are equal. Each person has the ability to make their own decisions in whatever way they choose. Some people make great decisions, others make poor decisions. Most of the time people are good and try hard to help each other that what they do will have an effect on others. Sometimes, however, judgment, morals and how they judge others can be distorted. Socrates believes that to have a fair and just trial all people involved must be considered equal. He claims to be very unpopular with many people because of the slander that has been made against him. The fact that he had become "unpopular" with many people suggests that his trial would have been unfair considering that the jury may have already based their opinion on him. In the same way that Socrates was slandered, the Jewish people were also slandered, making them unpopular and disliked. Both Socrates and the Jewish people, due to the slander brought against them, had started from the lower part of equals in the eyes of the law. When evil judgment corrupts those who judge, it begins to weave a problematic web. Some people decide to be good people, some people make the decision to be bad people. Of course there are different levels of each, but the principle of each is the same: good and evil. The law is good (supposedly) and the people of the law should be good. They are the ones who bring peace and justice to countries and communities. If leaders of the law are corrupt, communities and countries will become corrupt, the barrier between right and wrong will become smaller and smaller, until chaos ensues..