In his article, "Let's kill Socrates" (Herald, Voice of Opinion, October 8, 2017), Peter Fernandes rightly said, "In every generation since Socrates, the enemies of truth have sought to kill Socrates, but ironically Socrates lives on." Indeed, whenever some people start questioning retrograde mores, those who have vested interest in regressive practices and prejudices try to silence them and kill them. But what should we do in a such a situation? Should we support Socrates or his killers? Unfortunately, those who have a vested interest, brainwash us into believing that the past was always very good - Satyayug (age of truth) and the present is very very bad - Kaliyug (age of anarchy). So, we need to cling to our past and march backwards. This makes us quite apprehensive about our evolutionary progress. We tend to believe that old is gold and thus willy-nilly support the act of silencing Socrates. But when the logic of Socrates penetrates deep into the hard skin of status quo defence, then the evolutionary progress of humankind again gets going.