@Setanta,
This whole discussion seems sort of trivial, but at the risk of harping on a dead a horse (mixed metaphors?); were not the early Scots known for rieving both other clans and the English borders?
Was the difference in the violence and raping of women? If so I understand your point. I don't pretend to know history, so I don't really know if the Scottish people were violent to that extent or not.