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!’
I used the term autism because it’s the term used by my wife, a special ed professional for 40 years who has gone out of her way to study brain development and all kinds of disorders. According to her Musk is autistic, regardless of whether he’s been diagnosed. People keep using the word “excuse” - apparently it’s not okay to wonder WHY people do evil things. It reminds me of people who only want to throw drug addicts in prison and not think about what causes addiction.
A “special ed professional” is not able to diagnose autism from a distance any more than anyone else.
And yes, saying “he is autistic” to explain why he does something atrocious is an excuse.
And yet I’m not excusing his actions. He’s an adult and he’s fully responsible for everything he says and does. I just don’t hate him, I think his fall from “Let’s colonize Mars” to sucking Trump’s dick and being a danger to society is a sad tale. I also feel sad that people can’t even regard him as a human being - that’s the exact mentality that eventually lets the government throw people into gas chambers.
And yet you’re still diagnosing someone with autism from a distance, which is not possible.
Until you figure that out, nothing you say is defensible.