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Sure he did he's not stupid he understands fucking with the market has effects on people. Autistic people have a different sense of morality. Acting like an a
by TheOperator 7y ago
Sure he did he's not stupid he understands fucking with the market has effects on people. Autistic people have a different sense of morality. Acting like an autistic genius can't understand that doing illegal things which contributes to the stock market crashing for the sake of profit is bad... Is mostly infantilizing.
I mean his lawyer argued that but his lawyer is trying to exploit people like yourself.
- somebodythere 7y agoI'm not convinced that the stock market crashing (briefly, even) is inherently bad.
- onetimemanytime 7y agoAre you a doctor...and is he your patient?
- TheOperator 7y agoThe person in the story may not be my patient but I've been around the block enough times to understand WHY it is being thought that he is incapable of moral reasoning. I can speak to that subject without being a doctor. A doctor also in all honesty would almost certainly have less expertise in the subject than myself unless they were psychologists or similar. I feel compelled to speak on the subject because the general attitude that autistic people are fundamentally amoral, fundamentally incapable of knowing right from wrong leads to stigma and mistreatment while not actually being true. The very idea that you have to consult a doctor to judge if an autistic person, not the highest functioning but far from the lowest, is capable of moral reasoning is an idea that leads to stigma and "othering" and exclusion and dehumanization. If I come off as aggressive it's because I see your beliefs as personally threatening.
- timwaagh 7y agohis lawyer is doing his job well. autistic people will often be accused of crimes. they need good lawyers.