Agema said:
So a) accept the inevitability of adversity; b) prepare for adversity; and when adversity occurs c) accept its reality and d) set to work on rebuilding and recovering. Thus you should lead a happier life.
Garbo.
Stoics generally agree the highest virtue is
suicide before hypocrisy. Being a stoic is not 'happy' nor does it even make the argument happiness should be a prerequisite of mortal life, but rather virtue as the center of human good. The Commonwealth of one made manifest to all through equal spirit. Virtue is not virtue if adversity is dictated by the unvirtuous and one chooses to merely accept that and be complicit in the suffering it causes. There os zero reason to allow pain to come needlessly.
Since when the hell did stoicism get transformed into 'Fuck you. Got mine. Live with it...'?
What you're spouting now? The same empty platitudes of every idiot that says garbage like; "Hardship builds character..." All the while they know
nothing about it.
Quite literally the opposite of stoicism. You are meant to check evil to come, not simply allow it to pass... in the same way justice requires that one acts in order to place injustice behind them, or to cancel its existence to come.
Being a stoic means active agency against injustices of others. For to allow the unvirtuous is no less than to create the unvirtuous. Whether because one suffers it, or because one is compromised to it existing. The stoic does not act with calm repose when someone reveals the awful ills of the world inflicted upon them. The stoic stands and
they assist to rectify those injustices. They shoulder burdens. They attempt to cancel its emergence and check it in the future. They don't spout off empty, pathetic platitudes.
This...
... is a better reading of stoicism than simply "Shit happens..."
Being a stoic means embracing eupatheia. Through wisdom, good judgment (not idle speculation) replace the possibility of anger and achieve a joy of living what is ultimately a pointlessly brief existence. What it certainly does not do is ixnay actual human capacity and active agency out of the equation. No, you have an actual obligation to defend it for yourself and others.
No matter how 'inevitable' that bully that beats the shit out of you and others ... you are
justified when all other means are exhausted to
negate its unvirtuousness. If that requires you put them to the ground, to makeit
incredibly clear that if they touch you or your friends again they better damn well kill you, so be it.
Stoicism is
not a surrender to adversity, rather it is applied reason to praxis to actively be evil's bane and to prevent as far as possible other people being compromised by anger and hatreds that they might be denied their virtue in the face of it.
The evil of the action is the reason of the person that confronts it. That is the
only benefit of adversity in that it informs you of what must be done ... and there is no reason why you should allow yourself or others to feel it where and when it can be checked and removed of its existence.