“How should we live our lives?” The answer to this inquiry, acts as the puppeteer behind everything an individual does in their life. In the case of the freed prisoners from the, “Allegory of the Cave,” by Plato, Socrates believes the more knowledgeable and enlightened prisoners, possess a moral obligation to rule, even if they are unhappy doing so. This is because they have seen the truth about what is fair, right, and good. However, the wise freed prisoners begin to ask themselves why their moral duty should trump their happiness. They continue to ponder why their personal happiness, should not trump their moral duty. In the rest of this paper, I will prove that the freed prisoners are simply mistaken in thinking that they could be happier, by not doing their moral duty. They are still in the cave about this matter. A freed prisoner that believes he will be happier not governing the polis, city, municipality, or state feels this way due to his ignorant and egotistical reasoning. He deduces that in not ruling, he will have fewer responsibilities, in turn giving him more time to indulge in his individual pleasure. Theoretically, now out of the cave and holding the freedom to enjoy life however he wishes, one may ask what the freed prisoner may do. He may want to return into the cave, to be surrounded by other non-rulers like him. However, this reentrance into the cave is unwise. In, “The Allegory of the Cave,” Plato mentions that once the prisoner is freed and exposed to the truth, he can no longer return to the ignorance of the cave. Alternatively to ruling, the freed prisoner could instead partake in whatever pleasure filled experiences he desires. Continuously moving from one activity to the next, one may wonder if he ever will be fully satisfied, and cease action simply due to the fact that he has accomplished all that he has wanted. According to Richard Taylor in, “The Meaninglessness of Life,” if one ever concludes his endeavors d