ConspiracyPhilosophy

Ethicists, at least within their academic work, are encouraged to be skeptical of intuition and the naturalistic fallacy (the idea that values can be derived simply from facts). Philosophers are also familiar with tools such as thought experiments: hypothetical and contrived descriptions of events that can be useful for clarifying particular intuitions or the implications of a philosophical claim. These two factors make it unsurprising that philosophers often publicly adopt positions that are unintuitive and outside mainstream thought, and that they might not personally endorse.

The philosopher is the pharmaceutical for pathological complacency, which is why you shall find it much maligned and ridiculed as valueless or ineffectual by those viruses that inhabit the body politic.