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We're teaching them a deliberately diminished view of human nature that has been useful in helping scientists establish long-overdue connections between human and animal psychology--but that is not the end-all and be-all of who we are, what we do, and why we do it.
The moral of this complicated picture is that SATs are not the be-all and end-all.
The same paper said in an editorial that the summit is "not the be-all and end-all, because even if the sides sign some sort of agreement, it will not be able to reverse in one fell swoop the feeling of alienation that prevails between them."
He notes that being merely honest or truthful may not be the end-all of integrity, that integrity is based on an identity, not primarily moral but ethical, the identity of and with one's life-narrative.
The only explanations I can muster are that 1) I hate Kentucky basketball--Rick Pitino is so smooth it's creepy and 2) this is the NCAA tournament, the be-all and end-all for sports fanatics, an event in which no fine point is too fine, no minutia too minute.