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Well, it's certainly not against Stoicism's principles to assign values to things you don't control.

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Well, it's certainly not against Stoicism's principles to assign values to things you don't control.

"The U.S. decision to leave Afghanistan without leaving a residual force was against the advice of the military chain of command. Many…

Donald J. Robertson
Dec 2, 2021
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Well, it's certainly not against Stoicism's principles to assign values to things you don't control.

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Well, it's certainly not against Stoicism's principles to assign values to things you don't control. (That's a common misinterpretation of the philosophy, directly rebutted in Cicero's De Finibus and other sources.) This article doesn't criticize the concept of an exit from Afghanistan. What it actually says is about the way the exit was handled. See be…

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