The big lessons of philosophising
if you've decided that one group of intelligent people are clearly wrong, then you've probably failed to understand the full complexity of the problem
some questions can't be resolved yet, or are maybe fundamentally ill-posed
the devil is in the details - you can convince people with rhetoric, but if you want to be right, you have to burrow burrow burrow
there's always a means of undermining your assumptions, always a meta-position that invalidates the entire debate
even rational, intelligent, truth-seeking people can fail to draw the same conclusions
the value of some questions doesn't lie in their answers
consistency, patience, ability to withhold belief - some people don't see the attraction of methods that prioritise these
given the ineliminable level of noise and ignorance attached to any real questions, philosophising can't help you decide pragmatic questions
philosophising has its own aesthetics - and many of them, often exclusive to each other