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Asperger's has nothing to do with being amoral or immoral. Asperger's people have trouble following certain more subtle social norms but that has little to do with morality.

Some of the biggest amoral criminals in the world have been very adept socially (think Goebbels or Bernie Madoff), while some people whose morality was always lauded were known to be socially awkward (e.g. Einstein).

So while Aspergers is a disorder it is completely wrong to equate it with lack of morality.



Actually, there is also some problem with Asperger's folks and empathy. They don't have a lot of it. This is a fairly well-known characteristic, and there are related things: only talking about things that interest you, that sort of thing. From this perspective, AS folks could be called "less moral".

Of course it wouldn't really be a fair comment. And calling them "amoral" is just being a dick.


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The word 'amoral' is in the quote in the comment you are replying to. It's disingenuous to imply otherwise. You've also neglected to point to the whole comment that you are replying to, instead pointing at the part of the comment that you were replying to and insinuating that it is the entirety of the comment itself.


Yes. How disingenuous of me to point out the part of the comment I was replying to. I give up.


My point was that you were trying to imply that the part of the comment that you were replying to was the entirety of the comment itself, which wasn't true.




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