Steel: << It's normal and healthy for young men to be aggressive and their various outlets are necessary for them to express themselves >>

Nonsense. Steel should learn the difference between aggression and assertion, the former being unacceptable in civilised society, but the latter being desirable for both sexes. An aggressive man shouting at a woman (or indeed another man) to the extent of causing fear is actually committing assault.

Learning to control our aggression is part of growing up. One of the causes of the problems with violence in our society is because some people haven't done so.

CJ Morgan, what you are saying is nonsense and feminist propaganda. Aggression is a natural human emotion most often found in males. You only have to look at male competitive sport to see through it and to see that you are wrong. Your comment does not recognise biology at all or the demands it places upon the different sexes. Nor does it recognise that some people are extremely sensitive and can "become afraid" at the slightest, briefest raised voice.

You, Ludwig and halambolos are actually trying to socially engineer it away, like a communist, perhaps kim jong il.

Steel - "It's normal and healthy for young men to be aggressive and their various outlets are necessary for them to express themselves". Gotta agree with the others on this thread.

In areas where aggression is indeed "normal" so is anarchy and violence.

As for "healthy?" Do you have any friends who are shrinks? If you don't then access websites: there is absolutely nothing healthy about exhibiting aggression. There is a reason why there are laws against it, y'know.

I think we would all agree that there are many humans (I do not agree it is a prerogative only of young males)who have inherent aggressive tendencies. We no longer live in packs but in societies and a huge efforts in education, counselling, law enforcement etc. are in force in all societies to teach such people how to control these tendencies.

I cannot think that you have seriously considered your words: if all who experienced aggression were encouraged to express it and indeed such actions were condoned as healthy and normal any progress that humanity has made in the last few thousand years would be wiped away and we would be living life in concrete bunkers.

So add me to the growing list of posters who do not simply disagree with you but think this particular view is just plain incorrect.

Steel, one of the defining features of being human is that with us, culture and society outweigh biology.

No offence, but I'm really glad I'm not your neighbour.

Hi all,

Thanks to a few of you, C J Morgan, Romany and Ludwig, for renewing my faith in humanity. Violence is unaccepatable, no matter how you dress it up.

God damnit, you morons don't even know what you're talking about. Aggression is a fact, just like any other emotion. Socially engineering it to 'stamp it out' is a crime against humanity. What you're proposing is equivalent to elements of 1984, where the state decides what are 'good' emotions and what are bad ones. Honestly, the even the law is on my side (let alone REALITY). You people are hardcore communists.