Socrates rejected the exhortation of escape and chose to die, not because even evil law was a law, but because the escape was judged to be unjust for Socrates, who emphasized an just life more than anything else. He has never said that even evil law is law, nor does it seem to have had such an idea. In the second half of the Crito, an anthropomorphic law speaks of the unconditional obedience of the order of the law, but this does not mean that it should be subject only to the order of the law even when there is a conflict between the law and the divine command. Rather, it would be correct to say that Apology and Crito also share the idea that when the two orders conflict, they must obey the command of God, the upper command. This implies the idea of disobedience to the evil law of the country. But we should not assume that Socrates has the view that it is just to unconditionally disobey to all evil laws, that is, not every unjust law or legal order. He seems to have clearly recognized that sometimes disobedience can be justified, but sometimes it can not be justified.