Socrates debate on justice

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Question: In Republic part I, Socrates objects to Polemarchos's definition of Justice, based on Socrates stated view that it is always unjust to harm, or to aim at harming, one's enemies. How is one to square this with Socrates' own claim that the Guardians are to be, like watchdogs, "gentle to their familiars and harsh toward strangers", not to mention with the fact that the techne of the Auxiliary class is to be "SOLDIERING" (which, of course, would seemingly involve the maiming and killing of enemies, at least under most common, popular constructs)?

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