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I'm not the person you're talking to but I am autistic and I do experience a powerful obligation to help others in need. I feel it deeply in my very soul and I
by giraffe_lady 3y ago
I'm not the person you're talking to but I am autistic and I do experience a powerful obligation to help others in need. I feel it deeply in my very soul and I always have; I experience every choice not to act on it as a crushing moral and spiritual failure. I understand this isn't typical but surely you can see that it is a possible experience of the world for some people to have?
- golergka 3y ago> I do experience a powerful obligation That does not contradict my point in any way. I do experience this "obligation" too, and help others, but I don't think this word fits here. But that's just an emotion — that's not a real obligation that I actually owe somebody except for myself. Emotions are my own volition — I'm free to experience whatever I fee like. Real obligations are not; I have to respect them regardless of my internal emotional state.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoI don't understand the distinction you're trying to make and judging from the other comments I think its significance might be peculiar to you.
- golergka 3y agoIt's the distinction between something that requires personal consent: my own decision to be charitable — and something that doesn't: my obligations. If I owe you money, you can use force to get it. You can't use force me to be charitable.