And yet, people with good and careful parents have turned bad. And those with horrendous childhoods have nonetheless become kind and steady adults. I've thought about this for years and years, and never quite sorted it out in my mind. What IS it that makes people (not just men) act wickedly and violently? Men have raped for millennia. Surely they weren't all badly brought up? Is it genetic? Political? Cultural? Hormonal? Psychological? Or a combination of some or all these? And what do we do about it? What do we do with them? Execute them? Isolate? Lobotomy? No idea.