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Episode #107 ... Simone De Beauvoir pt .3 - Responsibility

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What Is Stoicism's Response to a Natural Disaster?

There's a reason we don't get mad at natural disasters like earthquakes. But something changes when it's another person that's ruining people's lives. That tends to be when people get mad and feel emboldened to call for action. Zamon de bavoir says, one does not submit to a war or an occupation as he does to an earthquake. He must take sides for or against, and the foreign wills thereby become allied or hostile. It is this interdependence which explains why oppression is possible and why it is hateful. The Stoics lay out tons of great tactics to use if you want to cultivate that ability to accept how out of your control the external world ultimately is.

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