Treason

Treason is a crime that today in some parts of the world is paid with death. Since ancient Greece treason has been seen bad. “Creon, the uncle of the fallen princes, now become king, caused Eteocles to be buried with distinguished honor, but suffered the body of Polynices to lie where it fell, forbidding every one on pain of death to give it burial.” In this sentence we can see how the treason that Polynicles gave to his home city was paid with death and even worse for Greeks, not being buried. I believe that the decisions that any person takes becomes their problem, no one should preoccupy about his problem unless the person ask them to. In other words I can say that one persons problem is none of your business. So if I decide to switch sides, as Polynicles did, no one should judge me as a traitor because its my problem, if I felt attacked in one side I have all the right to go to the other side.

Of course that there are some cases in which treason is a very bad action. This one is when you want to kill or damage someone after being his friend. “Polynices fled to Adrastus, king of Argos, who gave him his daughter in marriage, and aided him with an army to enforce his claim to the kingdom.” This shows how Polynicles decides to flee from his brother and plotted to take over his brother’s kingdom to make it his own. We can see that his treason is a really bad one, which at the end makes him pay as a bad person should pay.