There may be one argument or more than one argument in each of the following passages. Paraphrase the premises and conclusions (or use diagrams if that is helpful) to analyze the arguments found in each passage.

In the Crito, Plato presents the position of the Athenian community, personified as “the Laws,” speaking to Socrates or to any citizen of the community who may contemplate deliberate disobedience to the state: 

He who disobeys us is, as we maintain, thrice wrong; first, because in disobeying us he is disobeying his parents; secondly, because we are the authors of his education; thirdly, because he has made an agreement with us that he will duly obey our commands.