Is it wrong to not do homework? Or is it a reaction to boredom, lack of intelligence, ability, a need to try and see what being self determining  means, or any other number of reasons?   I hardly think not doing homework is ingrained badness.

Did I say it was - other than there is an element of refusing to do as one is told if one doesn't do it?  I used lying about why one hasn't done it as the example.

The plant was a helpful metaphorical explanation - not a direct and equal comparison.

but a metaphor with such very different contexts as to make it largely irrelevant.