Keeping coming back to the thought that Schopenhauer's defense of meat consumption (animals can better bear to suffer than men) is fundamentally at odds with the stoic concept of virtue (a virtuous man is a man better capable of bearing hardship because he has character)
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Also keep generalizing it to different types of humans and feeling sad. You look at a wolf, or something: it's an adult animal, even though it's dumber than most men, technically. You don't feel bad about its hardships. But inferior people are so childlike, so far from adult.
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In Enter the Dragon, the bad guy points out that strength is what makes it possible to protect vulnerable and beautiful things. But for some reason, not everything vulnerable is beautiful to strong people. This is the cruelest joke of even life-denying moralism: it is arbitrary
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Imagine being so useless that even your uselessness can't be used to signal someone else's strength.
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