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Atheist
In the hyper-empirical world view, a person is seen as just a "collection of atoms" and since it is not morally wrong to use, abuse, or manipulate atoms to one's own ends it is, therefore, not thought morally wrong to use, abuse, or manipulate people to one's own ends.
On the face of it, this almost seems reasonable. After all, we are indeed made entirely of atoms (or some other units that can be modeled mathematically). It fails, however, to take into account the emergent phenomena that make a human being so much more than "just atoms". Atoms don't have thoughts, feelings, hopes, dreams, or aspirations but people do. Clearly, being "made of" something (for example atoms) is not the same thing as "being" something.
Hyper-empirical people do not think in terms of good vs bad or right vs wrong. They think in terms of great vs not great. In the same way that life is an emergent property of chemistry, so morality and laws are an emergent property that arises whenever you have large numbers of people interacting with one another. Autistic people have difficulty understanding that. In their minds the only possible source of morality and law is some imaginary magical being called "God" and anyone who attempts to impose laws or morality is some sort of "priest" of this "God".
Image below shows how autistic people see all authority figures. Holy: inspiring fear, awe, and veneration. Autistic people think that only sheeple respect authority. God help you if you try to discipline an autistic child. They will see you as a child molester.
One outcome of the ability to mentalize is the ability to think teleologically — to see the purpose of objects or events. (Rocks and rainstorms have no purpose, but shovels and showering do.) One woman with aspergers writes in her blog that:
She didn’t get that some things were created for a reason.
On the face of it, this almost seems reasonable. After all, we are indeed made entirely of atoms (or some other units that can be modeled mathematically). It fails, however, to take into account the emergent phenomena that make a human being so much more than "just atoms". Atoms don't have thoughts, feelings, hopes, dreams, or aspirations but people do. Clearly, being "made of" something (for example atoms) is not the same thing as "being" something.
Hyper-empirical people do not think in terms of good vs bad or right vs wrong. They think in terms of great vs not great. In the same way that life is an emergent property of chemistry, so morality and laws are an emergent property that arises whenever you have large numbers of people interacting with one another. Autistic people have difficulty understanding that. In their minds the only possible source of morality and law is some imaginary magical being called "God" and anyone who attempts to impose laws or morality is some sort of "priest" of this "God".
Image below shows how autistic people see all authority figures. Holy: inspiring fear, awe, and veneration. Autistic people think that only sheeple respect authority. God help you if you try to discipline an autistic child. They will see you as a child molester.
One outcome of the ability to mentalize is the ability to think teleologically — to see the purpose of objects or events. (Rocks and rainstorms have no purpose, but shovels and showering do.) One woman with aspergers writes in her blog that:
The world I perceived was a random, self-sufficient system. It wasn't built; it grew. (When I was little, I thought houses and roads were some kind of large plant that grew out of the ground; if you had told me people made them I would've been thunderstruck).
She didn’t get that some things were created for a reason.