Mīts neatrisina Trasimaha problēmu (“Listen—I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger."). Raksta piedāvātais risinājums ir back to viduslaiki, kur bija izvēle (shopping around):

"A free market in law would resemble the situation in Medieval Europe before the rise of strong central governments in which disputants could select among several fora. Depending upon the nature of the dispute, its geographical location, the parties' status, and what was convenient, the parties could bring their case in either village, shire, urban, merchant, manorial, ecclesiastical, or royal courts."