Sir Sirius wrote:No he did not commit an appeal to authority in that post. I do not quite understand what he hopes to achieve by listing world famous successful people who supposedly had Asperger's, but an appeal to authority it was not.
There has to be some sort of fallacy for listing exceptional members of a group and claiming they are the standard, though I can't remember what one it is.
However the more interesting, not to mention disturbing, question is why did he place Theodore Kaczynski - better know as the Unabomber - in his list of successful people with Asberger's? Ok, Kaczynski does have a Ph.D. in mathematics, but that is not what he is known for.
He probably just searched for "Ph.Ds with Aspergers". Or "Famous People with Aspergers".
I was using them as an example that Asperger's Syndrome isn't a severe disability, and that there's plenty of very influential people throughout history with it.
Except we never said that, but we DID say that it IS a disability and you can dress it up pretty and trot out pretty horses, but its still a disability and a handicap.
MRDOD wrote:
There has to be some sort of fallacy for listing exceptional members of a group and claiming they are the standard, though I can't remember what one it is.
Fuckwad, as in a peice of paper where people clean up after their touchings.
Ah... so a Fucktard would be a Fucking Bastard I imagine.
And Pointless Attention/Acceptance Whore Spammer would be Darkane.
Get your signal to noise ration up or your post count will start rolling backwards.
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Concession accepted fuckwad. Mk2, It would greatly help if you didn't write that and instead just stop posting like you promised to do a few pages back.
Insults are pointless you realise... since they do nothing but serve to irritate the recipiant... and I'm not getting irritated by them... so you might as well not bother.
I wonder has it occured to anyone here that the advantages of autism, such that there are, would be easy enough to keep without the disadvantages, utilising SW genetech.
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Asumming SW humans have the same DNA, it would be incredibly hard to isolate, there is so much cross dependent stuff that I doubt we can isolate the advanteges.
Tiger Ace wrote:Asumming SW humans have the same DNA, it would be incredibly hard to isolate, there is so much cross dependent stuff that I doubt we can isolate the advanteges.
Have you seen the crap they can pull? They can make a human go.
"Right, this empire's evil, I'm defecting..." *ZONK* "I fucking love the empire!"
That happens to GeNode stormtroopers every time they consider something bad about the Empire. ZONK - back to full loyalty. At their tech level, the human mind is an open book.
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They can... do you ever think that they could deliberately alter Stormtroopers with the Obsessive Parts of Asperger's and then focus those obsessions onto Serving the Empire.
Just a thought from your friendly neighbourhood "fuckwit who won't conceed that hes a needlessly nitpicking son of pumpkin."
I'm surprised this thread has continued for this long. The mods must either be asleep or afk.. either that or they're enjoying this.
I have the sense that this thread was made with the sole purpose so that Dakarne could make himself feel better about his condition and how great it would be to have it, probably not in this world, but the Star Wars world. And I just have two things to say:
1) An online community that knows almost nothing about your syndrome, is made up of angry and unsympathetic nerds, is HARDLY the best place to look for someone to pat your head and say, "Yes yes, you'd make a great Jedi."
2) Actually, I'm pretty sure Stormtroopers would be diagnosed with Asperger if one came to Earth with the way they are genetically modified and trained. They only have one purpose in life, they're probably immune to be phazed by most body languages (though it doesn't mean they can't read it), they all have normal IQs, and since it was programmed into them, it's a neurobiological thing as well. Does that make you happy now?
1) An online community that knows almost nothing about your syndrome, is made up of angry and unsympathetic nerds, is HARDLY the best place to look for someone to pat your head and say, "Yes yes, you'd make a great Jedi."
I was never actually looking for that... I was wondering what the Jedi's reaction to Asperger's Syndrome and related Autism would actually be...
And people's opinions on it.
2) Actually, I'm pretty sure Stormtroopers would be diagnosed with Asperger if one came to Earth with the way they are genetically modified and trained. They only have one purpose in life, they're probably immune to be phazed by most body languages (though it doesn't mean they can't read it), they all have normal IQs, and since it was programmed into them, it's a neurobiological thing as well. Does that make you happy now?
Perhaps, I wouldn't know for sure, but Stormtroopers are obviously brainwashed with some form of Obsessive Disorder...
1) An online community that knows almost nothing about your syndrome, is made up of angry and unsympathetic nerds, is HARDLY the best place to look for someone to pat your head and say, "Yes yes, you'd make a great Jedi."
I was never actually looking for that... I was wondering what the Jedi's reaction to Asperger's Syndrome and related Autism would actually be...
And people's opinions on it.
In the more civilized worlds, I doubt you'd see many cases, their medical technology is far beyond ours. Though if they tolerated Jar Jar Binks, don't you think they'd tolerate someone with autism, or did you think they'd lop off their heads with their lightsaber?
As for people's opinion, didn't you post a thread in SLAM already? Seriously, what are you looking for?
