(Example Sentence) Why did my mother stabbed my father and not my father my mother?

Intransitive and passive are not identical, even if they overlap a bit. And no, the intransitive verb is not equivalent to the passive version of the transitive verb. For example:

ボールが落ちた - the ball fell
ボールを落とした - (I or someone else) dropped the ball.
ボールが落とされた - the ball was dropped (by me or someone else)

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