While famous philosophers tend to be decently high in social ranking as determined by education level, money, etc, they’re also likely to have people gang up on them. E.g. Socrates being killed, Galileo being condemned, Spinoza being excommunicated… And there are a lot of good philosophical thinkers we haven’t heard of, who might have been ganged up on as well.
Being a philosopher could in general be considered a form of neurodivergence. People who think and act differently from others could use justice-related protections that also protect other people who think and act differently from others. Updating all the way to min-max is a bit much, but there’s something to the heuristic. Over my life I’ve updated towards thinking that truth-seeking flags someone for coalitional scapegoating and that thinking about coalitions is important to maintaining a truth-seeking orientation.
While famous philosophers tend to be decently high in social ranking as determined by education level, money, etc, they’re also likely to have people gang up on them. E.g. Socrates being killed, Galileo being condemned, Spinoza being excommunicated… And there are a lot of good philosophical thinkers we haven’t heard of, who might have been ganged up on as well.
Being a philosopher could in general be considered a form of neurodivergence. People who think and act differently from others could use justice-related protections that also protect other people who think and act differently from others. Updating all the way to min-max is a bit much, but there’s something to the heuristic. Over my life I’ve updated towards thinking that truth-seeking flags someone for coalitional scapegoating and that thinking about coalitions is important to maintaining a truth-seeking orientation.