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Why do men commit most crimes and acts of violence in the world?


Hi everyone.

Throughout both human history and moderneity, it IS indeed men who commit most act of violence and injustice in our world.

But even without explanations of greed and sociopathy, could it be in some or other ways related to them being generally just physically strong and not bound by certain constraints by nature?

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No.... It's simply that men are stronger, have had more social power (for most of history) and have more reason to and opportunity to seek power over others...

A woman only needs to make herself available to procreate, whereas a man (until recently) must dominate, socially, economically, physically and such in order to make sure the genes continue to the next generation...

Believe me, if women were the stronger sex, young men would have become their bitches a lot sooner... For most of humanity, they didn't have that opportunity...

Attributing this to simple hormones or making it seem as just a negative thing is missing the point...

Why have men, throughtout history and currently, contributed the most to science, culture, art, freedom and human knowledge in the world? High testosterone is not just the answer... Women aren't lesser in these domains because they lack this...

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A woman only needs to make herself available to procreate, whereas a man (until recently) must dominate, socially, economically, physically and such in order to make sure the genes continue to the next generation...


This really rings true for me !

My most recent girlfriend unexpectedly admitted to me one day that she wouldn't give anything to experience the pressure a man in our current society experiences all of his life to " perform ! " To this day, I consider it one of the most brutally honest confessions ever from a partner.

And it's so true, whether it's in academia, sports, the battlefield, the bedroom...hell, every aspect of a man's life. And that also explains why we currently have such a burgeoning male-enhancement industry.

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Oh I can't even BEGIN to explain to you how misguided you are. Wow. Just wow. It would take too long.

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Because men are assholes.

Next question . . . ?

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By the way, you know when people speak of "cultural conditioning", does anyone know, why can't this type of "cultural conditioning" err condition EMPATHY and GETTING ALONG instead, and why do they even CARE so much about say WANTING people to fight and conflict, is it an unfortunate statement that humanity in GENERAL does not have empathy and that sadly, this type of lack of such characteristic is natural in us humans?

And also, what about the fact that many humans DO know the fact that violence and murder and other "similar bad deeds" ARE indeed wrong, and destructive, and undesireable and even place, besides legal restrictions, various moral implications and stigmatations on them, how come there are STILL SO many people on the opposite side who either just DON'T CARE or worse DIRECTLY believe in the opposite?

And would you then say that this is how human nature generally IS like - with good and evil forever ingrained in all of us like lightness and darkness, two opposite sides of the same coin?

And since men ARE indeed physically strong in all these aspects and have such abilities, hence why they use them and are ultimately more violent and aggressive than women, other humans, animals and inanimate objects.

Correct?

P.S. I sometimes feel that I MYSELF have greatly MISSED that "cultural conditioning" that everyone is talking about, because for most if not ALL of my life, I was frequently encouraged and enforced even as a man to be a nice human being, to not steal, kill and even angrily argue with others, and I often got in far more trouble for minor things than many men got away with for HUGE offenses, does that mean I was simply raised in BETTER PARTS of humanity and, for that matter, the world as well? (I come from Russia but have lived over 24 years of my life here in UK.)

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2 R Kane, by choice, chance, nature or somehow else?

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Are men THE ONLY male gendered human beings to commit major crimes and offenses in the name of POWER?

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Its not too bizarre by the way that telling people OFF for doing certain things and talking about how wrong and horrible it is, doesn't deter them from doing it anymore than prison does either - even with laws that DO work fully in certain places, although yes it goes with saying that some parts of the world have less a problem with those things than OTHERS.

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Another PAINFUL truth is the fact that even though many MEN DO KNOW that men are this and that, that they mostly commit bad acts in the world etc, sometimes, they tend to UNFROTUNATELY go out of their way, in the WORST sense of the word, to prove how much they are not as bad as people make them out to be, except they only expose themselves further and give the impression that natural selfishness exists in their genes, and that they are only thinly veiled selfish bastards who pursue no good deeds whatsoever and basically tell others off for telling them off.

Best examples - MRAs, but why DO they often defend BAD men as well or even in general, when feminists for instance don't mind talking about say if women do bad deeds, and sometimes I wonder - should we JUST ignore them or condemn them publicly, but what if public condemnation does NOT make all of it go away?

And do bad people in general either think of themselves as bad or just don't care and how come mostly they are never bothered that GOOD people might, if not outright punish them, but certainly look down on them?

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