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Hey there, Procaptan. Welcome back. This week, we're going to do something a little bit different because I made a mistake. I was in such a rush to get ahead of our production schedule by a month, which is really hard to do when you're doing four episodes a week, that I actually missed this week in that process. I don't know how I did that, ADHD brain,

that kind of thing just happens to me sometimes. So this week, I'm going to read our three

most popular substack articles. If you would like to subscribe to our substack, it is entirely free,

and you can do that by going to stoicismpod.substack.com or read.com. Again, totally free.

And we'd love to have you as a subscriber. We're almost at 1,000, which is pretty cool because we only

started our substack about, I don't know, six months ago maybe. Something like that. Anyway,

the first is a new one, actually, and it's trending so quickly

that I thought it was worth sharing. It's one I've written, and it is entitled, Would the Ancient

Stoics Have Been Against the Mistreatment of Animals? A little bit of background on this article,

Massimo Pilucci, who is the, of course, the author of How to Be a Stoic, rather popular book within the

Stoicism community at large. He and I had this very friendly disagreement on whether or not

the ancient Stoics actually would have cared about or really did care about animal well-being.

Massimo says that they had no consideration or care for the well-being of animals,

as animals were not gifted with the ability to reason. And so they were seen as tools and

basically like gifts of nature to humans. I agree with some of what Massimo says there, and I'm paraphrasing pretty strongly,

but you'll get the gist of it in this article as I reference and quote what he actually said.

But there's a significant part of it that I disagree with, and it's actually a bit of a

nuanced part, but I hope that you find this article interesting, and if you do, please consider

again subscribing to our free substack by going to read.stoicismpod.com. I will start the article now.

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