Admittedly, he is a little keen on making bad jokes, and his speculative conclusion (in which he suggests that humans could adapt themselves genetically to live on alien worlds) seems bolted on.
If autonomy is a part of the individual's good, then Sherman's Aristotle might be forced to conclude that friendship is to this extent bad; the conclusion might be, therefore, that we ought to reject this strong conception of the intimacy of friendship.
Willian picked up a second yellow card for a rather soft foul on the goalscorer, but the stamp on Karim El Ahmadi that brought a straight red for Ramires was altogether more serious and brought the game to a bad-tempered conclusion, with players squaring up to each other in front of the Chelsea bench.
The table in the summary for policymakers is almost unremittingly bad news; the conclusions in the chapters that fed into it, while far from cheery, were more mixed.
That quantification of everything, he thought, led to arrogant conclusions, bad policies, and a tragic loss of the real-world color and nuance surrounding our lives in the marketplace.
The research itself didn't set out to prove that "women love bad boys" – the conclusions just draw attention to the fact that playing up the riskiness of smoking and drinking isn't likely to be effective in getting young men to quit.
But there is good and bad in that conclusion.
At most, researchers have found that quality childcare, whether from a parent, a nanny, or a centre, is better than bad care, which conclusion is simple common sense.
Similarly, Longchamp's Mr Cassegrain argues that it is "almost racist to characterise made in China as bad".The broad conclusion from all this may be that luxury is in the eye of the beholder.
