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Aella
@Aella_Girl
People are mad at this, but I don't understand. The results feel like a great argument for (at least some level of) autism. If people *with* autism are much more likely to prefer it continue than people without, then this strikes me as a great pro-autism argument.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Are you autistic? || If you press the button, no person with autism is ever born again (or become autistic through other means), though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
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bonk
@MyAnvilCracked
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@Aella_Girl
I think people are upset because so many of the people voting don't have autism but would genocide autistic people. One dude in the replies was talking about how high functioning autists could be "allowed to live"
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bonk
@MyAnvilCracked
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@Aella_Girl
I understand the difference in intention. But the replies said something else. I know you dont control where an audience takes a question like this, but thats where it seems they took it.
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Infinity Curator
@infinitycurator
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@Aella_Girl
Asking from a place of unknowing, should it not be expected that some autistic people would take your hypothetical very literally and practically, especially that it threatens the primal fear of non-existence, in positing that they would not exist as they know themselves?
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