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Other people's suffering OK. For any of our suffering we immediately make an app to relieve it.
by toddh 8y ago
Other people's suffering OK. For any of our suffering we immediately make an app to relieve it.
- darkpuma 8y agoDoes seeing other people suffer cause you to suffer? Probably, right? Unless you're some sort of psychopath who has no capacity for empathy. Therefore a stoic is encouraged to alleviate the suffering of others, when it's possible. The idea that stoicism calls on people to ignore all the social wrongs of the world is a malignment of the philosophy. It's not fatalistic, nor is it isolationist. Somebody who is a stoic acts to improve the world when it's possible.