Is tyranny really bad?
>Polemarchus: "Do you see how many we are?"
Socrates: "Of course."
Polemarchus: "Well, you must either prove stronger than all these, or you will have to stay here."
Socrates: "Isn't there another alternative—namely, that we persuade you to let us go?" Polemarchus: "But could you persuade us if we refuse to listen?"
Glaucon: "Certainly not."
Polemarchus: "Then you might as well make up your minds that we are not going to listen."
Socrates ranked Tyranny as the lowest in his ranking of regimes. But at the very beginning of the Republic, he didn't really wanted to talk to those people, but they forced him. But they got educated because they acted like tyrans, or not?
I suppose if I think for a bit longer I'll find an answer for me, and I will, but I also want to know other people's opinions.