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There's no science to be found here, only the assertions of what is essentially a religious ideology. Pretty disheartening.
In the face of ecological collapse, diminishing living standards, and increasing authoritarianism I fail to see how stoicism is anything but healthy. To overcome challenges in the present and future we need fortitude, calmness, and patience rather than panic.
While it might not seem so, stoicism, in the sense that is discussed in this paper, is not really synonymous with fortitude, calmness, and patience. It is more along the lines that there is a natural order that is good that a person must conform to. I would argue that it's something closer to heteronormativity in personal belief.
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"Suppressing emotion" is just another word for emotional maturity. Should we all be like babies, crying all the time, screaming when we're hungry, etc? An adult should recognize that while some emotions are useful, others are not and learn to accept and transcend them, and also that even the useful ones are sometimes useful to other people as well, but at other times only useful for the person having them and there's…
Suppressing emotion is like level two on a five-point scale. Sure, giving your emotions free rein like a kid (level one) is worse, but suppression causes problems too. Those emotions will find a way out, whether it's suppressed anger turning into depression, suppressed fear turning into impotence, etc. There are literally thousands of books and scientific studies of this stuff. Read some. Learning to deal with your e…
Some people find outlets, some just suppress them. Maybe you have a different definition of what "suppress emotions" means?