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Generally, if you are male, no one is going to look on you with much sympathy if you express that you are in pain. Pity and contempt are the more likely outcome
by thrower123 7y ago
Generally, if you are male, no one is going to look on you with much sympathy if you express that you are in pain. Pity and contempt are the more likely outcomes. Stoicism is a tool that helps it to be a little easier to suck it up and drive on and do your job.
- watwut 7y agoYou do get a doctor to have a look at your hand or back. You can get pain relief medication. Stoicism is not philosophy for people at breaking point nor thos with real problems that needs to be solved actively. You as tech worker think about how others looks at you and consider social status. Poor miner needs fix for back that is hurting enough to prevent him to fully perform which puts him at risk to be even poorer. My poit is that civil rights nor security regulations nor anything like that happened because people were stoic. Moreover, places with those sucky-destroy-you miner jobs tend to, well, not be stoic. They have host of social problems, alcoholism, drugs, physical fights etc. These people are not signing to stoicism as philosophy. They are drawning and reacting to that.