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by recursivedoubts 1469 days ago
This headline is a comic example of the genetic fallacy.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic

The article continues in this vein, and then presents a straw man version of stoicism in which rape, murder and so forth is greeted with indifference. I am not an unqualified fan of stoicism, but this is a ridiculous caricature of the philosophy, and the alternative presented by the article appears to be an appeal to allow emotion to drive our behavior.

I do not notice a dearth of emotional reasoning or a surfeit of stoic reasoning in today's world.