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Philosophy is a personal activity that benefits from training and experience. Training in logic and critical thinking to avoid fallacies and to compose correct arguments is supplemented and enhanced with experience reading, discussing, and participating in decision-making about moral concerns and the ethical standards by which they are decided. As eating and sleeping, individuals must do their own thinking, preferably logically, and make their own moral decisions, preferably ethically. Studying philosophy assists doing these tasks competently, and evaluating others' results doing similar tasks. Disparaging others who choose education to enhance their philosophical abilities, and to be useful to others directly or indirectly as a result, is clearly counterproductive. One's efforts are better spent learning the details and depths of logic and ethics to not further embarrass oneself propagating personal ignorance.