I hate Philosophy.

[Subotan]

Not useless, but arguably damaging to the world as a whole. Volonté générale is, for all intents and purposes, a pretext for dictatorship.

That depends on how you interpret "Forced to be Free" - either at face value, or the actual meaning of ensuring that the minority don't try to screw up the democratic system solely on the sole grounds that they lost, and that participation in the system entails legitimation of it.

Nobody likes it when someone calls your subject, in which you have put effort, useless. But don't act like you have to be super smart to do philosophy and say that someone who doesn't like it hasn't got the capacity, cos to be honest, it makes you look like a who thinks he's better than others.

There's a difference between calling a subject, say, "boring" and "useless". The former is a normative statement that others don't have the right to challenge you on and declare that you're wrong (Even if they disagree), whilst the latter is a declaration of objective fact which has the potential to be wrong. If we take, say, homoeopathy, I can point to numerous examples of how it is no better than a placebo - it is a useless subject. In contrast, if I said chemistry is useless, then that shows that either I don't know chemistry is, or that I'm not smart enough to be able to understand how important chemistry actually is. Philosophy is in the same category as chemistry here, as there are directly observable benefits from philosophy such as Democracy, Logic [Which in turn led to the creation of computing], ethics etc. Now, it is entirely possible that Warman doesn't know what philosophy is, as he seems to think that philosophy is epistemology, which isn't true (thank god), but...