Is vapidity hard-wired into us as a species?
In G. L. S. Shackle , Earl and Littleboy write "there is clearly a good reason for [discounting everyday dangers] being a hard-wired tendency." What does this sentence say that "People have a tendency to discount everyday dangers" doesn't? I say nothing at all. The authors are not claiming to have found the "wiring" creating the behavior in question, and anyway, if it was "hard-wired," one would think it might be a little more than a tendency, right? The way I read the sentence is "there is clearly a good reason for [discounting everyday dangers] being a [LOOK! We know trendy neuro-babble!!] tendency."