How would I know? Not everyone is stuck in the black and white molds you perceive (blue and red in your case)
Meno. Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way?
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Socraties: I told you, Meno, just now that you were a rogue, and now you ask whether I can teach you, when I am saying that there is no teaching, but only recollection; and thus you imagine that you will involve me in a contradiction.
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Socraties. Then if virtue is knowledge, virtue will be taught?
Meno. Certainly.
Soccraties. Then now we have made a quick end of this question: if virtue is of such a nature, it will be taught; and if not, not?
Meno. Certainly.
Socraties. The next question is, whether virtue is knowledge or of another species?
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Socraties. Then, Meno, the conclusion is that virtue comes to the virtuous by the gift of God.
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