The great meat grinder doesn't care either way. Stoic or screaming and kicking, you're going in.
replySo sayeth a Head of Engineering.
replyAye - I'm marching into it like everyone else, just with a different flavour of pain
replyCorrect. Stoicism was for two audiences. Those doing the killing to be indifferent toward it and for those being killed to be indifferent about it.
replyMarcus Aurelius the historical figure was a monster who killed a measurable portion of humans alive at the time
I mean... so did a lot of other rulers. As far as emperors go, Aurelius wasn't that bad. You have to judge historical people by their peers, not by your own modern standards.
replyStrictly speaking nobody has to do anything.
replyStoicness is for the lamb and the wolf alike; mindfulness is for the monk and the samurai killing on behalf of their lord alike.
replyWe are not so one-dimensional that good mind habits are the one and only thing we do and act on.
But that was a stoic comment.
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