I suspect that what aspergers types like—if that post is correct and they do like it—is more the rules part of morality than the being judgmental[1] part of it. Rules for strict rules for interacting with other folks make social interactions less error prone when you literally don’t—can’t—get those social cues others do.
I’ve been judged to be at best borderline aspery (absent any real testing, who knows) and manifest many of the more subtle symptoms, and my take(s) on morality are (1) that it is much like driving regulations. No one gives a flying f’ which side of the road you drive on as long as everybody does. (no need to get judgemental about it unless someone is deliberately doing it wrong) and (2) that the human animal (at least neurotypical human animals) have behavior patterns that are a result of both evolution and society. Following these behavior patterns will keep you from some fun and lots of pain, and will generally get you into the fat part of the bell curve. Break the wrong ones and you will wind up in the ugly part of the curve. Figure out how to break the right ones the right way and you get into the cool part of the bell curve where interesting shit happens.
Oh, and sometimes when you break these rules you hurt other people. When you hurt them by accident that’s bad, when you hurt them on purpose and they don’t deserve it, that’s even worse. If they do deserve it then it’s probably because they broke one of the rules.
People do shit for all sorts of reasons, and in contemporary society there are all sorts of people in power advocating all sorts of mildly to wildly stupid shit. Can’t really blame someone all that much if they spent 12 years in schools that pushed the sort of “education” that you get from compromising between fundamentalist Christians, New Age Fruit Cakes, Universal Church Members, and your typical politicians. Oh, and people with masters degrees in Education, much less Doctorates.
Seriously, you’re better off with the f’ing Jesuits. They might believe in God (it’s hard to tell sometimes) but at least they also believe in Latin, in Logic and Math, and in “The book of nature”
Oh, that got a little off topic. Oops.
[1]Making judgments is what thinking people do all day long. Using those judgements to attach moral worth to someone is different.
I suspect that what aspergers types like—if that post is correct and they do like it—is more the rules part of morality than the being judgmental[1] part of it. Rules for strict rules for interacting with other folks make social interactions less error prone when you literally don’t—can’t—get those social cues others do.
I’ve been judged to be at best borderline aspery (absent any real testing, who knows) and manifest many of the more subtle symptoms, and my take(s) on morality are (1) that it is much like driving regulations. No one gives a flying f’ which side of the road you drive on as long as everybody does. (no need to get judgemental about it unless someone is deliberately doing it wrong) and (2) that the human animal (at least neurotypical human animals) have behavior patterns that are a result of both evolution and society. Following these behavior patterns will keep you from some fun and lots of pain, and will generally get you into the fat part of the bell curve. Break the wrong ones and you will wind up in the ugly part of the curve. Figure out how to break the right ones the right way and you get into the cool part of the bell curve where interesting shit happens.
Oh, and sometimes when you break these rules you hurt other people. When you hurt them by accident that’s bad, when you hurt them on purpose and they don’t deserve it, that’s even worse. If they do deserve it then it’s probably because they broke one of the rules.
People do shit for all sorts of reasons, and in contemporary society there are all sorts of people in power advocating all sorts of mildly to wildly stupid shit. Can’t really blame someone all that much if they spent 12 years in schools that pushed the sort of “education” that you get from compromising between fundamentalist Christians, New Age Fruit Cakes, Universal Church Members, and your typical politicians. Oh, and people with masters degrees in Education, much less Doctorates.
Seriously, you’re better off with the f’ing Jesuits. They might believe in God (it’s hard to tell sometimes) but at least they also believe in Latin, in Logic and Math, and in “The book of nature”
Oh, that got a little off topic. Oops.
[1]Making judgments is what thinking people do all day long. Using those judgements to attach moral worth to someone is different.