“...you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along [such that] if he abuses you, it becomes disturbed and confused, do you feel no shame at that?”pic.twitter.com/hoZdiVMVAN
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I don't agree - if someone has power over you without consent, you're a slave. Stoicism is about reshaping your value set to become your own master.
In other words, I don’t want to be *entirely* my own master as long as I have many friends wiser than myself
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'Master' implies that you defer to these wiser folk when you disagree. This is a mistake. That they are *usually* more right than you doesn't mean they are right in the (few?!) cases where they fail to persuade you. If anything, the opposite is to be expected.
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Likewise for being 'taught' or 'trained' if those terms have connotations of deferring unpersuaded.
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