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Neuroscientists: Autism is a disease that makes you too morally inflexible to murder puppies

www.jneurosci.org Right Temporoparietal Junction Underlies Avoidance of Moral Transgression in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by a core difference in theory-of-mind (ToM) ability, which extends to alterations in moral judgment and decision-making. Although the function of the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ), a key neural marker of ToM and morality, is known to be atypic...

Right Temporoparietal Junction Underlies Avoidance of Moral Transgression in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Apparently not changing moral stances in private vs in public makes us unable to understand personal gain. Some real Ayn Rand shit.

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