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Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy

Hidden Brain

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Is There a Risk That Stoicism Can Sit of Transfor Over?

Is there a risk that stoicism can sit of transfor over into the phenomenon of blaming the victim? I mean, here's one way to put it. If you look at martin luther king, for example, he was the target of considerable discrimination and refused to play the role of victim. He found a way to minimize the harm it did him personally. In that way, he could use the energy that he would have spent feeling beat down, feeling powerless, to start a movement. So that's a wonderful direction, a re direction, you can take when you have been targeted by evil and malicious forces.

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