The most obvious fruit of the Socratic Method is expressed by Socrates early in his speech to the jury. He tells the jury that his mere discussions with people were never meant to harm anyone, but merely strip them down to who they really were. Socrates speaks first of the pompous politicians who claim the ability to speak on any matter because of their wisdom. He claims that the only reason he had discussions with them was to help them realize how little they really knew about the matters they proposed to speak on. An ultimate example is given right before Socrates makes this point. He tells the jury that he has not prepared a speech, but chooses instead to speak on only the matters he knows, claiming that a prepared speech at his age would not be a proper representation of himself. This is discrete attack on his accusers since they have all prepared their attacks in order to seem as if they know what they are talking about. Ultimately, we hit a limit within the Socratic Method. This comes at the end of Apology when Socrates essentially proposes the death penalty upon himself. He uses the same logic as always to deduce that if he accepted prison, he would just be at the will of a warden. If he gave up his practices, he would be impious and should be dead anyways. Because he uses the same logic to determine the penalty for himself, he comes around to the fact that the only proper punishment would be death since the other options would end up being worse than death, assuming that his presumptions of the afterlife are correct.