Pathology of incompetence : I used to say, most issues fit into one of three buckets : lazy, stupid, or evil. ( A buddhist might say, the other two are just species of stupid, ok. )
Nowadays it is trendy to incorporate affirmative action for disability, so perhaps disability is orthogonal to the three buckets above.
- lazy : effort results in pain
- stupid : pain impairs ability
- evil : in pain, except when others are in pain
Cute. Now we can discuss all this in terms of pain management. I support it, as long as I get a solution.
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So, currently my understanding of autism affirmation in public policy, is that it is just a question about how communist ("equal"; Rawls, "just") we wish to be. It doesn't matter why anyone's output is low - the question is, how much do we want to even the field between low-output and high-output folks?
From a utilitarian perspective, the hypothesis of enabling hidden talents applies - so then it all becomes again, a test circuit. You don't perform, for one of ten reasons, ok; we have affirmative action for seven of these (three are "deemed evil", or otherwise triaged out), ok; but if affirmation does not produce results, we reallocate or freeze affirmation, ok?
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