When young people migrate from a rural area which probably already is suffering from a low birthrate, this effectively eventually can create a "lack of life" in a certain place where after a decade or a few decades, a certain rural area can actually die out due to not enough young people being there anymore.
The main difference between the Sophists and the other philosophers is that the Sophists were essentially rhetoric teachers, while the other philosophers were more interested in seeking the truth.
The Sophists were rhetoric teachers, and their focus was on the art of persuasion by using language. They were wise, intellectual people, and they were trying to use and teach their abilities of persuasion by using language to the wider masses.
The philosophers, on the other hand, were focused on knowing the truth, they wanted to be wiser by knowing the truth instead of dogmatically stand by the false beliefs. So they were trying to teach the wider masses the ways as to how to come to the truth and wisdom.
True, those amendments were only for colored men.
It includes asking "why" and the "what" question on a particular matter based on the knowledge of experts pertaining to that same matter. 'Why' and 'what' questions need to be asked in order to make a careful study. Also it can include meaning making. Its an intangible analysis that CANNOT be quantified in numbers.
