As someone who has been diagnosed with aspergers syndrome before: The problem with this line of thought is that it's quite possible for us to atomize and quant

As someone who has been diagnosed with aspergers syndrome before: The problem with this line of thought is that it's quite possible for us to atomize and quantify the causes of assholery. That doesn't make the people involved any less jerky. For any human flaw we can probably put the person in question under a microscope and diagnose the exact causes, but the behavior is still hurtful and offensive. I guess the point of your comment is that the people doing the hurting might be innocent in the mens rea sense, but I think that's a fairly high bar of charity towards people who use tactics like SWATing and obviously enjoy the pain of their victims. Moreover if improvement is possible, you won't get it by not holding people accountable for the things they say and do.