I'm prepared to have this down voted, so without further ado, I hate this subbreddit.

new editI just learned that they are roasting me over in r/badphilosophy; I actually enjoyed the ordeal, go check it out. They also (rather funnily) point out some areas where I'm just plain wrong.

edit: I just got home from work, trying to respond as much as possible, although I'm sure many have said their piece and moved on. Whether you agree with me or don't, the discussion un this thread today has made me feel much better. Thanks for listening to get angry at you.

It is to philosophy what r/politics is to politics: non-conducive towards questioning and learning nor towards view point sharing. The community (whether at large or a dedicated minority) is biased heavily against those would come here to think, to learn, and postulate. There is coaching and correcting here, instead of encouragement and direction. Comments and posts are deemed all to easily ignorant and unintelligent, and down voted, responses and correction (fact wise or attempted conversions between school of thought included) are regularly condescending and malicious. This is not a place that celebrates philosophy or encourages growth (of logic skills, etc). Had any of us not had the free will of mind to ponder the world and come freely to the conclusions we have come to, or had any of us not received encouragement and direction towards free thinking and deduction then we would not, better or worse, be who we are as individuals today. To so overtly stifle and repress natural thought, curiosity, inquiry and the very mechanisms that built the defining philosophies we love to read, is shameful, to my mind. I am ashamed of this community. And I will be judged, down voted, I will receive the same hateful orange red i received over the innocent comments I've provided, on every account that I've had, I will no doubt endure the criticisms of the community at some inane factor of my delivery, or formatting, but I cannot sit idly by knowing full well the capacity Reddit has to engender eureka moments, and knowing that what should be the ideal place to share and grow is in fact, a waste of time.

/endrant