New Charges In Plato's Apology

In Plato's Apology, Socrates a philosopher is standing trial for charges that are not easily proven. Socrates has two sets of charges brought against him the “old” charges that Socrates claims that have been talked about for a very long time “there are many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me for a long time now.”(Plato 18c) His second set of charges known as the “new’ charges represent more straight forward claims. New charges called onto Socrates is that he is guilty of corrupting the youth as well as not believing in the gods in which the city chooses to believe in. Despite accusation for many of these false crimes Socrates is allowed a chance to argue his position against his accusers, which is what Socrates does best. However
In his first argument in regards of him corrupting the youth Socrates says “But the one who makes them better-come, tell them and reveal to them who it is.” (Plato 24d) Meletus states that everyone who isn't Socrates has been only beneficial to the youth. Socrates proves this to be untrue using a horse trainer analogy that says only horse trainers can improve a horses behavior and such should be applied to the youth how could someone with no specialization in teaching the youth actually help the youth which disproves Meletus first accusation that everyone helps the youth besides Socrates. Socrates next confronts the charge in which he is detrimental to society. Meletus still on the stand gets asked by Socrates how he can be detrimental to society if he himself actually is apart of society. Why would he voluntary hurt himself as he regards this as foolish as no person in there right mind would cause harm to themselves. Socrates then goes on to point out one who unintentionally does harm as Meletus suggested should be taught on how to not do harm instead of just being punished for