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Are we all Right-Thinkers? The discussion became very interesting when people began to question Paul’s idea of “getting it less wrong”. To paraphrase Cynthia’s idea, she said why do we need to know whether the world is flat or round just as long as I can walk on around on it. Then Carol was so intent upon completing the evolution exercise by having Paul say openly which scenario was the best. I personally dislike the idea of calling science a “story” especially with high school students who have little regard for what is important or “real”. To say the word “story” will automatically have my students thinking that it is a lie. For example: “Mrs. Theriot, I saw on TV a show that said the moon landing was fake and they proved that it was all shot on a movie set.” Why do my students believe this kind of show but not the tons of evidence to the contrary? My students enjoy living in a virtual world. More than enjoy they crave this form of entertainment. Worse yet they begin to form ideas that this is real and then have trouble distinguishing real vs. games. I think that school shootings have evolved based on this very problem. Right-thinkers would know that they should not be bullied and in fact can NOT be bullied. Do they then begin to believe that they are right in avenging themselves and eliminating the bullies and those that aligned themselves with the bullies? Worse of all will they think that the bully has then learned his lesson and will be a nice (alive) person from now on?