Yeah I think a worrying thought is that it has to be that way. A big conundrum for technologically advanced societies is that technology gives us so much power that if people are anything but weak and helpless, they become so dangerous it makes society unfeasible.

Somehow we need to contend with killdozers, school shooters, anthrax mailers, and so on being much more capable than anything even a particularly yoked antiquity nerd like Plato ever could be.