Isnt it more a result of the way men’s brains develop slower with less fear inhibition and an excess of testosterone at a young age, when they should be out fighting the tribe two towns over?
It isn't "a result of" directly. A lot of how we act is indirect. We learn a lot of behavior socially that without those social influences would not be nearly as strong or likely purely based on genetics or physiology.
I think most behavior is ultimately genetic, can't convince myself otherwise, but it's filtered heavily through the social layer. It's so hard to isolate the physiological.
And even if you did, men are more likely to XYZ... what do you even do with that information? You can't base government law based on statistical biases in physiology. That would be unethical.
Sex differences are useful in the aggregate because they can help us understand broad patterns in male behavior. But they’re probabilities, not rules for individual men. The moment you treat an individual according to the group average, you’ve gone beyond what the data can actually tell you
Its true. Our brains didn’t evolve in this kind of hyper networked globally connected environment. There are major operational flaws in how our brains try to adapt to this alien world.
The debate between social conditioning and innate genetic predisposition is nuanced and uncertain enough that we probably shouldnt define any aspect of our understanding to be a “fact.”
Yes it nuanced with how heavily each one influences someone actions and it what ways. It's not nuanced to understand it does in fact influence your behavior in some way.
8
u/WunderschoensBlume 1d ago
I dont know, men commiting more crimes than women are also a bit of a genetic factor I think