What’s great about this, and Stephen Fry is brilliant, is not that he’s absolving Musk, or that he’s criticizing Tesla, but that it is an argument likely leading to Elon Musk protesting,
‘No, my cars are good enough that I can be a Nazi!’
What’s great about this, and Stephen Fry is brilliant, is not that he’s absolving Musk, or that he’s criticizing Tesla, but that it is an argument likely leading to Elon Musk protesting,
‘No, my cars are good enough that I can be a Nazi!’
His potential neurodivergence does not excuse the evil. The majority of autistic people comprehend morality.
I don’t think he’s trying to excuse it. I think he’s saying you’d view an autistic Nazi walmart greeter more differently than you’d view an autistic Nazi whose already the wealthiest man in the world, and society’s values are letting that wealth have a huge platform and allowing him to basically run the country unilaterally.
An autistic Nazi plebian doesn’t have that kind of influence. Many people would probably pity them. An autistic Nazi being given the world is probably a bad thing.
Yeah I guess we’re not allowed to talk about this guy clinically at all. Has to be about good vs evil.
You want to argue that armchair psychology is more important in this situation than condemning doing a Nazi salute?
Armchair psychology and armchair political rants are both armchair activities., so neither is more important, and they can both happen at the same time.
It’s just interesting that all statements about <bad guy du jour> are considered support if they aren’t condemnation. If you said Bill Cosby used to do funny standup for example, you would be flooded with hate because the only acceptable reason to mention Cosby is condemn him for being horrible. But understanding the psychology of horrible people is actually important. Think how it would be if you got a rectal disease and it turned out there was no cure because assholes are gross so nobody studies them and anybody who mentions them except to rant about how disgusting they are gets pounded with douchevotes and called a pervert. Objective talk about aspects of sociopaths should be okay. Don’t be the Christian who clutches their rosary every time somebody says “Satan”.
Where did you get your degree in psychology? How much experience have you had evaluating autistic people?
Your Honor, I move that this is not a courtroom, you and I are just ordinary people sharing our opinions.
Your opinions are offensive and it’s really disturbing that you have yet to realize that when everyone is telling you that.
Or maybe you don’t care if you offend autistic people and those who love them.
Either way, it doesn’t speak highly of you.
Personal attacks are uncalled for. If you’re autistic I would appreciate knowing in what way I have offended you. I think what the douchevoters are telling me is that on subjects where they feel strongly hateful they see anyone who doesn’t join the chorus as The Enemy. I actually don’t like Elon Musk. When he entered the public eye I thought he was a visionary out of a sci fi story, proposing to launch gleaming old-school rocket ships to Mars. I’ve seen his trajectory veer from that and, in crude terms, “go psycho”. On a personal level I think he’s sad case, and on a political level he’s very dangerous due to his vast wealth. His main role in history could be to demonstrate the dangers of unlimited wealth, just as Trump’s might ultimately be to demonstrate the dangers of dumbing down a population of voters. People who insist on seeing a binary world full of only Good People and Horrible People are meme-level thinkers who also illustrate that last point.
You have offended every autistic person by thinking you can both diagnose autism from a distance and that you personally have that ability.
What other medical issues do you think you personally can “clinically” diagnose in someone without ever talking to them? What gives you the tools or knowledge to do so? You apparently have no professional training in the field.
Of course you pretending to be a doctor and diagnosing people is offensive. I imagine you wouldn’t dream of doing that with, for example, HIV just because someone has certain mannerisms. And the fact that you don’t understand that is pretty fucking wild.
Ok, having the opinion that someone is autistic is BAD, claiming to speak for every autistic person is GOOD.
Got it.
It’s like you aren’t even reading my posts. Every single one of them is about you claiming you can diagnose autism by seeing someone on TV.
Not a lot of normies can hyperfocus enough to become billionaires
I think extreme wealth is a matter of luck. Lots of equally clever, equally hardworking people succeed moderately, but extreme wealth and success are a perfect storm of timing, economics, and a lot of other things that nobody controls.