What peers should imply to escape this trap is that the jurors represent the society which is wronged when the written law is broken. If a jury of such men can forgive, then so should the law. Eventually, Plato comes to the ownership of wives and children. Already, I find conflict in that neither wives nor children are actually owned. The true relationship existing here is an interreliance mineraturizing that of the whole society.
Man is social and, as such, programmed to form structured units like the family.
Plato went so far as to break up the family in order to disrupt inheritance of trade, position and title. This cure is worse than the disease. Children have the greatest dependance. Most of this reliance is on their mothers, but it transfers to their fathers since their fathers are responsible for making sure that their mothers can be there to meet these needs. Plato transferred this entirely to the state in a socialist design.