My understanding is that the "stoic lack of emotion" is a misunderstanding of stoicism. Stoicism is very pro-positive emotions. But it tries to prevent negative

My understanding is that the "stoic lack of emotion" is a misunderstanding of stoicism. Stoicism is very pro-positive emotions. But it tries to prevent negative emotions from clouding how you frame a situation. I have myself wondered about the place of something like "righteous anger" in Stoicism, or other negative emotions that drive us to do the correct things. But I believe the Stoics would say that you should do the thing because it's the right thing to do, not because anger or sadness drove you to them. I think Seneca addresses this [1]. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Anger https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Anger