Random violence makes the news precisely because it is so rare, routine kindness does not make the news precisely because it is so commonplace. (104) - Matt Ridley

And in the matter of seduction itself, once more it is the male who is expected to make the first move. Women may flirt, but men pounce.

No matter that the social sciences set about reinventing much more alarming forms of determinism to take the place of the genetic form: the parental determinism of Freud; the socio-economic determinism of Marx; the political determinism of Lenin; the peer-pressure cultural determinism of Franz Boas and Margaret Mead; the stimulus-response determinism of John Watson and B. F. Skinner; the linguistic determinism of Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf. In one of the great diversions of all time, for nearly a century social scientists managed to persuade thinkers of many kinds that biological causality was determinism while environmental causality preserved free will; and that animals had instincts, but human beings did not.

Market failure is a favourite phrase; government failure is not.