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I think when we decide someone is strong, it is us mirroring what we find best in others. We are trying to attach meaning to suffering or to hope. So it is relatively easy to decide who is strong whether or not it is true. What is there to lose with little encouragement..
I don't know about others but determination has been both for me, self preservation which is innate , you do what you have to in order to survive + the choice to become better which is to me pretty much the will to power like described by Nietzsche .
It is very easy to decide who is strong because ultimately I am just attaching values that I aspire to to others.
Weak though is tricky. Lack of strength isn't the only reason why someone would do that and wallow in misery. I met lot of strong people who stopped wanting to get better in some fields of their lives because they do love their problems and don't want to lose what they already have. And them complaining over and over empowers them and keeps them going..whereas it would depress you to hear.
They still have determination, determined not to leave their abusive partners, determined to still follow laws that don't have their best interest, determine to be religious despite gender discrimination..etc they can still will to become better but not in those particular aspects.
Are they weak as whole? I don't think so. I think they are only weak in those aspects.
And so am I in some.
I think sometimes when we consider them week we enable their laziness ..other times we do so as protection, like we are obligated to help the weak. So often it can happen as result of excessive superiority tendencies.
Unfortunately that also applies to strong. Lot tend to dismiss helping others and feeling responsible for their suffering by calling them strong.
I also think being strong is not always the right choice.
