e hearts and minds of other citizens, then that individual would probably not be inspired enough to take the disobedient action in the first place. The highly moral individual would probably still disobey what he or she saw as an immoral law, but there would not be as much incentive if he or she did not have the hope that the law, the state, and other human beings would be affected positively by the disobedient action.
Again, if the individual is receiving something from the state---from police protection to city plumbing to many other advantages and rights and privileges---then he is obligated to agree to submit to the legal consequences of any disobedient action he takes on moral grounds. By receiving the benefits of the state, he has entered into a contract of sorts with the state, and if he chooses to obey a higher moral authority than the state's laws, then he is morally bound as well to submit to the state's punishment because of that contract into which he had entered.
Socrates clearly understands that the state is bound up in divine law and that he himself is bound to tak
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