3y ago

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

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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I have a condition where I don't want to commit acts of evil, sorry :shrug-outta-hecks:
- TIL I have a medical exemption from the military
  
  TIL Asperger's is when you're autistic but not enough to stop you doing war crimes
It's nice to see actual scientific evidence for what I've anecdotally noticed about people on the spectrum, that they are very moral and ethical and are usually surprised about neurotypicals "moral flexibility."
Like, if you ask people "if you found a wallet with $1000 in it and a driver's license, knowing that no one will be hurt if you take $100 in this hypothetical, and no one will notice and you will not get punished by doing so - would you take some money form it?" Neurotypicals usually say yes even though they say it's wrong, people on the spectrum usually say no and are pretty surprised about it.
Also, I swear people with ASD are extremely charitable and are probably up there with the furries for most charitable donations per capita.
- Tbf as an autistic there are situations I'd take the money. Namely if the drivers license said "Elon Musk" but this is still consistent withy morals of steal from the parasites

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