We contend that attempts to foster unity (among the schools or in the wider profession) at the expense of scientific integrity is ultimately self-defeating.
Yet, when actually performing, they instead pursued behavior aimed at immediate gratification, despite knowing the longer-term results would be self-defeating.
They are considered to develop during childhood or adolescence, be elaborated throughout life and to be dysfunctional in that they lead to self-defeating behavior.
These complaints include these measures being anti-developmental, self-defeating, and tending to have an adverse impact on the poorest segments of the population.