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Originally Posted by granpa
thats why I said
Not really, it is just fuzzy. Regardless, what is the source of that. I see it appears to quote a biblical passage; that immediately makes it suspect. Great for theology, horrible for science.
That is better although you still have to zoom in quite a bit.
This is my favorite part:
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Females have finite empathy but only an infinitesimal
amount of anti-empathy (infinitesimal clitorises)
Males have finite anti-empathy but only an infinitesimal
amount of empathy (infinitesimal breasts)
My best WTF moment of the day, bar none.
Whoever authored this is free associating in an attempt to force fit concepts together. And even they end up with quite a few "?????" labels where they couldn't dream something up that fit. I mean, associating relative size of breasts and and sex organs with empathy is rather like the Nazis fascination with trying to associate head shape characteristics with intelligence.
And speaking of Nazis, in what sense is Asperger Syndrome Nazi-like?
OK, I can read that, but all it does is make a list of assertions, with no citations to back them up. Not even references of value, unless your suggesting the bible passages give it credibility. I hope that is not what you are suggesting, is it?
treating people like inanimate objects is very Nazi-like
Persons with Aspergers do not perceive others as inanimate objects; besides, that perception would evidence taking their perceptual difficulties personally. These are people who want to relate to others but can't.
What Nazis did was depersonalize and dehumanize others so that they could mistreat them. Mistaking a high functioning autistic for a fascist is quite a feat, given that the autistic person would have been one of the "defectives" they would want to spirit away and dispose of. And it reflects the same level of overreach that nearly all the associations in this chart make. And calling it overreach is a kindness; most of these connections would be more accurately described as highly questionable, not simply overdetermined.
Autistics approach people as they do because of perceptual deficits, not for the purpose or intent of using or dehumanizing them.
I repeat, an autistic would be just the sort of "defective" a Nazi would hate. They wouldn't recruit an autistic; they would kill them (ideally) or put them in a concentration camp or a medical experiment.
Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfondrati, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, Monsignor Francesco Ingoli, Pope Paul V, et. al.
What Galileo overlooked in his empirical observations was what the Bible said about that which he observed.
Those guys tapped him on the shoulder and told him if he wasn't careful what he sayd he will get burned at the stake. That isn't what mordant meant.
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Originally Posted by mordant
I challenge you to demonstrate one single time in human history when a theologian has tapped a scientist on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me, sir, but your equation is off here ... and here ... and you overlooked X, Y and Z ... and if you adjust for this here, and that there, you can make aluminum transparent and get antigravity out of it as a nice side effect."
There is no science in the bible.
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