Most assassins are psychopaths in one way or another. It might be interesting to study them but it doesn't mean they get a free pass for their actions.
Autism can be an experience of having all your senses, empathy and emotions turned up to 11 while everyone around you is behaving in seemingly irrational ways you have no way of understanding except through the vicious pain other people steadily inflict on you.
Imagine growing up like that. Not just occasionally but every day for decades. It dulls something.
People with autism are not psychopath and it's honestly insane to bring psychopathy into a conversation about autism as some kind of comparison
Your lack of empathy and understanding for people on the autism spectrum is honestly scary
They do understand that they hurt people, but the fascination of finding something adhering to rules, is stronger.
@Scandinavian: Relatives of mine. One in particular, enjoys trolling me, and i sincerley hope its limited to me. Others might not understand the sense of humor, and it particular, the endless "reproduce" joke and reaction sequence.
I don't think it's insane to bring the comparison into this conversation, because the behavior of this autistic person is clearly a psychopathic one, regardless of the intention.
Excluding intention as a part of judgement is also excluding a desire to rehabilitate the offender, which makes the goal of punishment revenge
What ends up happening is that people with autism are sent to prison, where they will be the victim of psychical and mental violence almost every day, in an environment that's torturous to them, with no ability to understand why they are there or how to change their situation. All this simply because of a desire to hurt someone who's perceived as "bad".
I'm not sure we agree who's displaying psychopathic traits in that situation
Psychopaths understand emotions but don't feel them.
They might seem similar but really are polar opposites.
I'm aware that the concept of a disabled person also being 'bad' in some way is not an intersection box that modern world has the tools to discuss at the moment. Outside the Overton window so to speak.
I think that's a number so low, that it's not worth discussing, given that a psychopath with full mental capacity would undoubtedly be more dangerous
And psychopaths are not autistic.
Yet it does not make the two things mutually exclusive. They can be both present and exhibit in individuals at the same time.
You'd be surprised: