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What Milgram demonstrated was that, contrary to expectation, 65% of a good sample of the population were prepared to administer a lethal shock to a person they had been introduced to, for no better reason than that they had been told to do so.
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.
Now please show that 65% of the population has demonstrable autism, or withdraw your assertion of an association between terrorism and autism.
Quote from: David Cooper on 01/06/2017 20:41:18 these people are more susceptible to becoming terrorists because they are wired differently.Nobody is warping your words.
these people are more susceptible to becoming terrorists because they are wired differently.
You have said that people with autism are more likely to become terrorists.
QuoteYou have said that people with autism are more likely to become terrorists.I have never said that anywhere and I will take legal action against you if you repeat that claim. This has gone too far.
You have said that people with autism- strictly- those with autistic traits- are more likely to become terrorists.
If you track down my real name (and that would be legally interesting) and sue then you will lose because my interpretation is entirely reasonable.
Also, you won't get far since there's no way that my assertions about you here on a web site can damage your reputation. "David Cooper" is too common a name to identify you uniquely.
Quote from: Bored chemist on 03/06/2017 20:57:54You have said that people with autism- strictly- those with autistic traits- are more likely to become terrorists.People with some specific traits in common but who are quite distinct from people who are classed as autistic due to other aspects which are not compatible with autism. I have made that clear more than a dozen times.
but who are quite distinct from people who are classed as autistic due to other aspects which are not compatible with autism.
People don't commit acts of terrorism because they don't understand their victims' suffering, but because they deliberately desire them to feel that suffering: because they have been taught that the victims "deserve" that suffering.