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Wait, what? Can you give some references on Aspergers => different axiology (new word for me)? And how does Aspergers => consequentialist morality, and how does not compartmentalizing + consequentialism => singulatarianism?
It sounds interesting, but there are 3 unsupported and dubious-sounding links in that chain.
The "theory theory of mind" says that autistics lack the ability to simulate someone else's reasoning. If this is true, and Asperger's is like autism, people with it might be likely to judge people on the basis of consequences, since they have no model of other peoples' intentions.
Although, now that I think about it, if someone has no cognitive model, but just observes a large set of instances of
<situation, action, outcome>
and finds a way to classify them as "good(action)" or "bad(action)"; and if situation + action usually determines outcome; is there any difference between being a consequentialist (making a lookup table of outcome -> action), or a deontologist (making a lookup table of situation -> action)?
I still don't understand the connection between Asperger's and compartmentalizing.
How does that argument rely on you being a consequentialist? Other ethical systems have to do with, eg., measuring intended consequences instead of actual consequences, not ignoring consequences.
The biggest dividing-line that I've observed between value systems is between people who believe that a decision was right if it produced good consequences; and people who believe that a decision was right if, given the information available when the decision was made, it was expected to have good consequences.
If both are consequentialism, then what terminology do you use to distinguish them?