How Did Socrates Corrupt The Youth

Socrates charged with being a Physicalist or Natural Philosopher and a Sophist, more specifically of corruption of the youth and impiety. Charged with these crimes for two different reasons, one, being misunderstood by the people he had questioned over the years as to his motivation. They felt he was questioning their beliefs and values. This made them angry and out of resentment took these charges out. The other reason is they were trying to degrade him and throw a bad light on him in the cities eyes since they felt this is what he had done to them by questioning their intelligence. The statement made by Meletus and Anatyus was that he was “investigating things beneath the earth and in the skies” and “making the weaker argument appear the stronger,” leading to the conclusion that he was corrupting the youth. He was telling them there were no Gods, and everything is explained through science. This was not true; all he was doing was enlightening himself as well as others, based on the Delphic Oracle. There can be a combination of both science and religion in society.
As Plato writes in his dialogue of hearing, Socrates states, “Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.” Therefore, he would have had to play on their emotions, like the Sophist, and would have been guilty, but chose to speak the truth. His opinion on exile was that it would ultimately end in the same conclusion as this trial, as wherever they sent him he would still talk to anyone and do as the gods commanded him to