Autistic individuals focus on outcomes rather than intentions, study finds
Article Source: msnbc.com
from:msnbc.comPerception of morality different when you have autism
Seeded on Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:34 PM EST (msnbc.com)
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This actually explains many of the "blame the victim" commenters on MSNBC.....
This makes a lot of sense, actually... explains some things that have occurred in my own life
Crap, I have been espousing a consequentalist form of morality for a while. Turns out I'm just autistic.
So hypothetically then I can try to kill you and fail, and you'll not even worry about it since after all, I failed. Good.
¿What?
Er...lots of lawsuits happen because people accidentally hurt someone, and it was totally an accident but they got sued anyway.
So I guess the autistic people should become good tort lawyers.
The jellyfish example is flawed/inadequate. This is because Janet is guilty after all -- of finding unreliable information and telling it to her friend, presumably as if it were reliable, despite the fact that wrong information could put one's life on the line. Her friend is guilty too -- of believing in Janet without questioning her about the reliability of her source. The example can easily be fixed by saying "Janet had read from multiple reliable sources...". The outcome for the autistic should still be the same.
What other perceptions are different with autistics? I guess i should do some homework on this one.