In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

“One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very nature, an antithesis. A thesis is only ever put forward in opposition to another thesis, or in defence of a new one.”

― Louis Althusser, Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writings, 1978-87