"Master, are you never really angry?"
"Happiness is, among others, defined by long duration. Like Seneca, I too remain human therefore admits to lose my temper now and then. Yet, certain ideas cannot but evoke very sad and, if you will, angry thoughts in me. When I think of what is being done to children for instance. The murder, maiming, selling, robbing, sexual abuse, the 'Sejanus' children, cannot leave a decent person untouched, Tao/Stoic or not. Imagine only the thousands of children of 2 or 3 that are the victims of satanic rituals, all over the world! The rare cases brought before justice or police, are being wiped from the table because they are 'impossible', while we all know that children can invent and fantasise almost everything EXCEPT what they then report.
We have institutions for the rights of man, for the rights of
animals, for the rights of children even, and what do they teach
and proclaim? Century old TRADITIONS. What kid-stuff-society,
society of grown-ups!"