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    It is not the case that The Stoic distinction between preferred and dispreferred indifferents entails that the sage can rationally orient toward the world as better or worse, which licenses a form of normative discontent.

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    • 1.The Stoic sage's supreme good is virtue alone; treating indifferents as genuinely 'better' risks making virtue instrumental to external goods.
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    • 2.Stoic ataraxia requires indifference to external outcomes; rational orientation toward their improvement may undermine this psychological state.
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    • 3.The distinction between preferred indifferents and genuine goods may be merely nominal, collapsing into the incoherence the view attempts to avoid.
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    • 1.Stoics explicitly rank indifferents as preferred/dispreferred, treating health and virtue as objectively better than sickness and vice.
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    • 2.Rational agents can consistently prefer states of affairs while maintaining emotional equanimity about whether they obtain.
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    • 3.Normative discontent—judging the world as failing to meet rational standards—doesn't require emotional disturbance or loss of tranquility.
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