Are philosophers jealous lovers about reality?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I think that if you're going to delve into 'are they REALLY faithful' absent a particular cause or causes for suspicion, you're diving down a rabbit hole of teasing apart every action they take for evidence of unfaithfulness. Like a conspiracy theorist, if you look that hard at seemingly innocent actions, you're like to find things that increase your suspicion for psychological reasons. You can always find discrepancies if you look hard enough because no one is perfect.

On a larger scale, I think Hegel may have been warning against unlimited skepticism, or investigations without value.

A good example from these boards is the are-we-living-in-a-simulation debate. While it may be a fun intellectual exercise (for some), trying to prove or disprove it is - ultimately - a pointless endeavour.

Boru