In Plato’s Euthyphro, many of Euthyphro’s virtues become vices. He bases his virtues off of piety, and social standing. By Euthyphro prosecuting his father for murder it shows that his social standing is a main concern. This is shown by his worrying that his family and his status will be polluted if there was a continued relationship with his father. “For the pollution turns out to be equal if you knowingly associate with such a man and do not purify yourself, as well as him, by proceeding against him in a lawsuit” (44). This prosecution of his father led to one of Euthyphro’s vices. Prosecuting your father is an extremely impious act, something that would be condemned by the Gods. “Yet they are angry at me because I am proceeding against my father when he has done injustice, and so they contradict themselves both concerning the gods and concerning me” (47). However Euthyphro’s virtues and vices combined are his belief in piety. By prosecuting his father, the act of him prosecuting a wrongdoer is virtuous, which in fact is extremely pious. However, Euthyphro had to weigh what the Gods would believe with more because prosecuting his father would be impious- a vice. Euthyphro does not have his own set of morals. Instead he follows the Gods beliefs. That is a vice for Euthyphro because he picks the best situation that he thinks would be the most beneficial at the time being. By prosecuting his father, he is able to live an unpolluted life, but at the same time he is doing an immoral practice.