What Is Plato's View Of People Being Unjust

In the world there are people who are just or unjust; some might even be both. A person who goes out in the day may be just because he wants people to recognize his good behavior, and praise him for it. But that same person may go out at night, and be completely unjust because no one can see him. Therefore, in his mind his actions don’t matter. In Plato’s The Republic, the view of justice is illustrated by the story of Gyges’ ring, and that view is that if people could turn invisible almost all of them would be unjust. If this were the case many people would agree with the view of people being unjust because if a person is not seen nothing is stopping him from abiding by the law. People would agree with this for many reasons one being, if a person wanted something he knew was wrong, but he knew no one could see him, would he use the opportunity to take it? For many people the answer would be yes.
The speaker is saying that if people didn’t have to worry about getting in trouble with the law they would not care about the consequences of their actions, and they would all turn into unjust people. Because they are seen in public and don’t want to get in trouble they continue to abide by rules and be just. Moreover, when their actions are just, and they are doing good deeds people will praise them for that, which fuels the fire for them to be