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by unlikelymordant 1378 days ago
If there are things in your community you can change, then stoicism certainly does not say dont do it. Marcus aurelius, one of the most famous stoics, was roman emporer. Hardly a position someone who felt they could change nothing in their community would take on.
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> things in your community you can change

There are a class of problems that are immovable to an individual yet conquerable by a community.

The author's fear in this piece is that a follower of Stoicism would too readily accept one of those problems as unchangeable.