go easy on rapists

GUYS LISTEN TO ME FOR A FUCKING SECOND yk how in yaoi they give the rapist seme some sad childhood backstory and everyone gets mad like "so we're justifying rape now?? he's still a rapist, he knew what he was doing, he's still guilty" LIKE OKAY BITCH I GET IT BUT HEAR ME OUT FOR A SEC. TODAY IN CLASS I LEARNED THAT CHILDHOOD TRAUMA COMBINED WITH HIGH MAO-A ENZYME ACTIVITY CAN CONTRIBUTE TO AGGRESSIVE AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR. AND LIKE... THINK ABOUT IT FOR A SECOND what if that mf had a horrible childhood AND was also biologically predisposed to certain behavioral tendencies because of his MAO-A activity? DID HE CHOOSE HIS GENETICS? DID HE CHOOSE HOW HIS BRAIN DEVELOPED? AND NO i'm not saying victims should forgive their abusers or that what he did was justified. THAT'S NOT MY POINT. BUT LIKE... is trying to understand WHY someone turned out the way they did automatically the same as excusing their actions? if someone's childhood experiences and MAO-A activity both played a role in shaping their behavior, how much of that was actually under their control? AND APPARENTLY, MAO-A HELPS BREAK DOWN CERTAIN NEUROTRANSMITTERS IN THE BRAIN, SO BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES IN THIS SYSTEM CAN BE PART OF THE BIGGER PICTURE WHEN IT COMES TO BEHAVIOR. OBVIOUSLY, IT'S NOT AS SIMPLE AS "HIGH MAO-A = AGGRESSIVE PERSON," BUT STILL, THE INTERACTION BETWEEN BIOLOGY AND CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES IS STRONG MAYBE IF HE HAD DIFFERENT BIOLOGICAL PREDISPOSITIONS, HE WOULDN'T HAVE DEVELOPED THE SAME TENDENCIES EVEN IF HE WENT THROUGH THE SAME SHIT MY POINT IS, SOMEONE CAN'T BE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT THEY DID WHILE ALSO BEING A PRODUCT OF THINGS THEY NEVER HAD CONTROL OVER