You make the point, with which I concur, that males and females exhibit different behaviour patterns in many animal species and that the same could apply to humans – albeit modified by socialization. This introduces another factor to consider when attempting to define “misbehaviour”. If a human behaves according to his or her genetic “programming”, can he or she really be said to be misbehaving? Adolescent males of many species fight each other to gain a mate. Two boys fighting over a girl are only behaving according to a biological imperative. Is that really “misbehaviour”?

 

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