This moral dilemma has been attributed both to Plato and Socrates, and it goes as follows: a man is given a weapon from a friend, and the friend has the man promise to return it soon. The man then discovers that, upon returning the weapon, his friend plans to use it to harm another person. The moral dilemma the man now faces is whether to return the weapon to keep his promise, but risk harming another person, or to break his promise to his friend and keep the weapon, but protect another person. In terms of moral dilemmas, this one is an easier example, because the moral reasons for not returning the weapon as clearly stronger than the moral reasons for returning it.