I dislike how you try to paint pain as something less bad than it actually can be
I feel like all stoicism does is trying to justify pain and suffering and because of it, can be used against pro social wellfare arguments .
Life is suffering anyway, you can learn to accept suffering, you can be free in mind even if your circumstances are dire, so why bother to create better environments for people? They will just get weaker and worse at accepting suffering.
So I guess by that logic polluters actually do a good thing. They create new opportunities for people to suffer and grow because of the suffering.
Oh god stoicism, viktor frankl, Martin seligman. All 3 are different from each other, but there is some connecting element in them that I can't really specify.
They make me feel really bad and sick, horrified and like either the world is just absolutely awful or I am morally evil for being pro-pleasure and anti-trying-hard-things.
I dont think having to survive extreme hardship should be seen as a growth opportunity. We just give bad people a pass to hurt others and justify it with "tough love approach" or something somewhat similar.