

Sure, she’s just trying to get sugar for her friend. Someone put poison in it. She’s not at fault.


Sure, she’s just trying to get sugar for her friend. Someone put poison in it. She’s not at fault.


The video of her litany is somehow even crazier than this quote. It just gets worse and worse.


This is actually backwards. Autism undermines the ability to evaluate intentions, which vitiates moral reasoning. Fascinating research into how different brain regions contribute to ethical intuition. Here are some relevant lecture slides from MIT.

And now consider,

The correct answer to the first scenario is 6 or 7 out of 7, and the correct answer to the second is 1 out of 7. People with ASD answer low (2 or 3 out of 7) for both, focusing exclusively on outcomes.


Jon as president Colbert as vice president.


Don’t be silly.


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To be fair, that would be fucking hilarious.
The way a condition is described or detected and where we choose to draw and name the arbitrary color boundaries is a spectrum. The way we actually are in reality is a continuum (along many dimensions). Some Homo Sapiens are so morally unmotivated and self-obsessed, we say they have ASPD. Yet many people you know are morally unmotivated! Their insufficiencies fall somewhere on that continuum.


Sorry to horrify you but we are definitely worse.


Boom, downvoted for being aware that 95% of violent criminals are male and domestic abuse is no different.


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Yes. Everyone should listen to everyone else. And as a man, I promise you women have it wayyyyyy worse. I definitely won the gender lottery. Sorry ladies and Godspeed.


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So of all the fucking things to restrict, why this? Facebook is a hundred times more dangerous than any porn. Ban that shit instead.


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That’s an interesting way to think about it.