On a more serious note
I hope I never reach the point of saying, or believing, that there is something wrong with someone merely because he doesn't undertake a serious study of philosophy.

But.

In my post last week in which I was joking about philosophy, there were a couple replies that reflected the too-common attitude that anyone who studies this stuff is wasting his time. Let me try to be as clear about this as possible: You, whoever you are, have a method for analyzing data and a set of assumptions. If you have never seriously studied the history of philosophy, and examined epistemology carefully, that means you are not aware of what yours is. In that case, odds are close to 100% that if you were confronted with your method and assumptions, you would find that you didn't agree with them; that the way you are looking at the world is one that, in fact, you would think was wrong if it were explained to you. Which leaves you in an oddly embarrassing position, doesn't it?

Does that mean I think everyone needs to study this stuff? Fuck no. What it means is that not studying philosophy is nothing to be smug about.