) Finally, this community of wives and children is explicitly mentioned only in regard to the guardian and auxiliary classes (464b). (Relations between brother & sister might result, though, at least post-menopausally. Parents are kept from knowing the identity of their children (457d), and incest is prohibited, a prohibition made possible by "generational" parent-child relations (461c-e). Infanticide is advocated for unfit children (460c, 461c-d), and child-rearing is carried out by state officers and nurses (460c-d). The lottery is, of course, a false one, rigged to guarantee that the best will breed with the best, etc. Form: The rulers will practice eugenics by way of a "mating lottery." Socrates once again advocates "a throng of lies and deceptions for the benefit of the ruled," which he describes as a "drug" or "remedy" to be administered by a "doctor," i.e., the rulers (459c-d cf.
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