{"id":8835,"date":"2020-06-21T16:04:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailystoic.com\/?p=8835"},"modified":"2020-06-21T16:12:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T20:12:29","slug":"this-is-your-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailystoic.com\/this-is-your-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Your Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s tempting to tell yourself that we don\u2019t have a problem. That you don\u2019t have to get involved. This doesn\u2019t affect your community. It\u2019s not actually that big of a deal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Look at these numbers instead, a commenter whispers. But what about this other case or that one, they say. I\u2019m not an activist, you think. I don\u2019t want to step on anyone\u2019s toes, I don\u2019t want to make things political. Someone else can probably do a better job.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These are lies. All of them. And they are worse than just apathy or rationalization. <\/span>As Marcus Aurelius reminded himself<\/span><\/a>, we can commit injustices by doing nothing too. When we try to tell ourselves that this is not our fight, that this is not our problem, that someone else is more equipped to get involved than we are\u2014that\u2019s what we are doing. We are not just allowing injustice to continue, we are committing a new injustice by abandoning fellow citizens or fellow humans <\/span>who are asking for our help<\/span><\/a>. They need our capital, they need our bodies, they need our political pressure. <\/span>That\u2019s how change happens<\/span><\/a>. That\u2019s how things get done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne person\u2019s disengagement is untenable unless bolstered by someone else\u2019s commitment,\u201d <\/span>Pericles famously said<\/span><\/a>. If you decide not to vote because voting seems so statistically insignificant, or you don\u2019t speak out, if you let things pass because you would rather avoid conflict, that might make your life a little more peaceful, but the result is an incremental increase in the suffering of others. By refusing to demand a solution, you are contributing to the problem. By refusing to fight for that solution, you are asking others to carry your part of the load.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s not right. <\/span>It\u2019s not courageous. It\u2019s not just. It\u2019s not wise either<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We have to do this together<\/span><\/a>. We have to see it as <\/span>our<\/span><\/i> fight. Because it is. <\/span><\/p>\n

P.S.\u00a0<\/i>This was originally sent<\/i><\/span><\/a> on June 23, 2020. Sign up today for <\/i>the Daily Stoic\u2019s email<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and get our popular\u00a0<\/i>free 7-day course on Stoicism.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s tempting to tell yourself that we don\u2019t have a problem. That you don\u2019t have to get involved. This doesn\u2019t affect your community. It\u2019s not actually that big of a deal.\u00a0 Look at these numbers instead, a commenter whispers. But what about this other case or that one, they say. 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