
35. Stoicism and bullying
Philosophy as a Way of Life
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The Big Ugly Kid on the Schoolyard
The book talks about stoicism and bullying. I suspect I'm not alone in imagining the big ugly kid on the playground who steals everybody's lunch money when we think about bullying. But you seem to mean something both sort of more specific and yet more broad than the schoolyard. So I wonder if you could say a little bit about what you mean by bullying in this context. Yeah. There are probably two popular images. The first is kind of Nelson from the Simpsons if people know, you know, the big dumb kid who's unable to compete otherwise and by using his sort of brute force. You know, the second image is kind of the pretty girls in high school who form
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