The Ring Of Gyge From Plato's Republic

The Ring of Gyges is from Plato’s Republic, in this book Plato is in dialogue with Claucon. The men are discussing justice; Glaucon says that people really don’t want to be good people, but we have to be due to justice. Glaucon also says that justice is rooted in people being weak. Glaucon is not on the side of the victim, he believes that the person who did the injustice in the first place is more of a victim than the actual victim.
Gyges was a shepherd and was under the service of the King of Lydia. One day as he was tending to his flock there was an earthquake, and it made an opening in the earth at the place where he was feeding his flock. He decided to descend into the opening and upon entering he sees a hollow brazen horse. He decides

to look in and sees what appears to be a dead body with gold ring. He took from the ring from the finger of the dead and ascended back up to the field. It was customary that the shepherds gathered monthly and give a report about the flocks to the king. Gyges attended the assembly with the ring on his finger, and as he was sitting among the other shepherds he turns the ring inside his hand, and he instantly became invisible. The shepherds then began to talk about him as if he was not there. He was surprised at this, and again touching the ring he turned it outwards a reappeared. He soon realized the power he had and he seduced the queen, and with her help conspired against the King and killed him and he took over the kingdom
The ring and its power tempted Gyges to seduce the queen and kill the king. I agree with the subject matter of the myth. The ring is like a cloak of invisibility. Gyges realized what power he has and uses this to his own personal gain. He can be viewed as a person who abused his power of the ring and became unjust and immoral. Gyges uses the ring by doing that it takes away all the consequences of his actions. The ring also corrupts Gyges because he takes the king's wife and then kills the king, ultimately giving him power and rule over the land. The ring distorts, Gyges morally, he was a shepherd, who conspired against the king and killed him for his own gain. The ring acts as a resource allowing him Gyges to do as he feels and he gets away without any consequences.
A real example at the ring of Gyges would be criminals who commit witness tampering. Criminals will do anything to stay out of jail, especially organized crime members. These people who are involved with organized crime have an arm that extends far beyond the eye can see. In order to stay out of jail, they would use any means necessary. Take John Gotti Sr also know as the “Teflon Don”, he was called the Teflon don because no matter how many times he was tired he was always found innocent because a witness would “disappear.” No charge could stick to because of the power he had and the power he had. The power he had was striking fear into witnesses or worse killing them. This power is comparable to the ring of Gyges because Gyges lived without any consequences, as did John Gotti Sr