The mind of the youth is forever in states of acceptance and openness, taking ideas and images into their minds and forming opinions. The concept of understanding justice versus injustice, as defined by Plato, becomes then an increasingly consuming challenge when faced with images which are of ?evil actions.' The idea behind this concept becomes a point of great controversy nowadays, dealing with censorship issues, while maintaining "justice is the greatest good."
Justice has to be the main focus of any society, without it the mechanics of the city simply fall into a state of atrophied or worse, anarchy. The main problem with the concept of justice is distinguishing it from its polar, injustice, and then reinforcing those guidelines throughout the society. Plato's theory for prevalent justice deals with the youth, and more importantly images and stories in which they are faced. Plato argues that great care must be taken when presenting such stories with ?(evil) images' to children (youth) because "whatever opinions are taken into the mind at that age are wont to prove indelible and unalterable." However, theses images to a degree are a necessity to understand the virtue of justice and distinguish between injustices, but the need to competent decisions on what is allowable is greatly required for Plato's overall utopian ideal, "persuading them that no citizen ever quarreled with his fellow citizen and that the very idea of it is an impiety." 2
Plato's idea of censorship is very realistic even for the current day, yet in itself would spark a great deal of controversy. Not long ago America dealt with the incident at Abu Ghraib and the associated photos and video footage of the occurrences that took place there. The surfaci ...