Based on Plato's allegory of the cave, U r a cave prisoner & had an opportunity to be freed, wud u take it?

Question

Based on Plato's allegory of the cave, consider the following question: If you were a cave prisoner & had an opportunity to be freed would you take it? Be careful how you answer! Remember that being free from the cave implies gaining knowledge that will forever change your view of reality and may for that reason change your life forever. The choice then seems to be between the life you have now (though it is based on illusion) or the life you may experience outside the cave (uncertain but based on truth and real knowledge).

Answer 1

If I were a Platonist I would want to be free. As a person who believes potential worship is one of the pervading sins of our world, I say better the distorted bird in the hand over the true two in the bush.

Answer 2

d**n straight. Who who wants to be ignorant.

Answer 3

people say they want to be freed, but the opportunity is given all the time, yet people are too ignorant and afraid to take it. people are too ignorant to realize that they are in a prison right now and they carry the portal to escape 24/7. even if they were to glimpse at the light, many will cower back to their prison afraid of the truth when every actions, thoughts, secrets are reviewed for all to see or when a fellow prisoner yank them back to "reality".

Answer 4

are you kidding me??  escape! why would I stay blind to truth, that is one of the few goals I have and making sense of the absurd would be wonderful.  I never understood some people's apprehension to philosophy and to "deep" topics.  I know people that hate it when I bring up topics of mortality and stuff like that.  I'm frustrated not being free and am sort of waiting to die so I can be set free of these shackles.  But in the cave I can just return, in death I'm gone.  Btw; people reading philosophy questions are probably going to leave the cave too.