Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.
~ Oli Anderson
Dialogue unplugs you from your own programming as you become more real, debate turns up the voltage and entrenches you more deeply.
If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.