Also, have you ever known someone with Aspergers? If not, you really aren't fit to judge. Hell, I probably shouldn't either, and I've seen the effects it has on an individual through a relative. It isn't a matter of them not caring that they're violating social norms, it is (at least in my experience) that they genuinely don't understand the basics of interpersonal communication on the same level that others do. Of course, I can't speak from personal experience, only ancedotal evidence, but you damn well can't either.
The hell we can't! Case in point- Vector has Aspergers. In addition, a surprising amount of other people on this forum do too. Yes, they may not understand the basics of social norms, but they are not incapable of learning them.
Like I said, that was personal experience with one individual I knew who had pretty severe social issues; there are plenty of people who are for all intents and purposes "normal". The point is, we don't know if this person knew what he was doing. Until we do, we can't really judge whether he was guilty of intent.
So why are all the other random trolls living in the U.K. not being arrested.
Because, as you seem to not understand there is a difference in degrees. For instance, If I say Flying Dice is a total idiot who refuses to actually read up the least on what he is talking about and only looks at the headlines before forming his shitty and ill informed 'opinion' that is tolling. If on the other hand I embark on a quest of harassment, following you about and finding what sites you frequent, basically stocking you, more so I if can find out any personal information (Shot in the total dark, is your name Steven?) and use that to follow you more. That is not trolling. That is harassment.
Also, have you ever known someone with Aspergers?
Yes.
If not, you really aren't fit to judge.
So I am?
you damn well can't either.
Why not? You don't know me, and those are some pretty bold statements to make online.
1: I clearly stated that that was if you had absolutely no personal knowledge, along with the acknowledgement that even with ancedotal evidence none of us are (I assume) researchers in the field, so
all of our opinions are relatively uninformed.
2: Things like this are incredibly common. My point was that you don't see people being charged on a regular basis, despite the fact that this sort of behavior is incredibly prevalent. For the record, my personal opinion is that what he did was horrible, but I'm not prepared to condemn him precisely
because that sort of sensationalism has at best a distance relationship with fact. Also, why is the first thing you go to is "trololol you only read the headline"? I read the whole article, if it deserves to be called such, and it frankly doesn't provide much more than a sentence or two that
weren't covered by the headline. And automatically accusing me of trolling, because we have differing opinions?
Also, if you want to follow me around online, I don't particularly care, because I'm not the sort of person that is bothered by some sad, friendless person trying to get a rise out of my by insulting me over the internet. Again, I don't disagree with you that what he did was incredibly wrong, but that doesn't mean that we should automatically condemn him based on a single, one page article posted on a news site, for the same reason that I don't take most media reports at face value.
As for pretty bold statements, ever heard of hypocracy? You swing from being outraged at the fact that I started on a wrong assumption about you to insulting be for having a different opinion. Yeah, it was probably pretty stupid of me to assume that you didn't know anyone with Aspergers, but I also didn't start saying "Hurr durr you are a complete jackass who should be disregarded by everyone here! How would you like it if I stalked you online?!".
Again, sorry if I offended you.
Fakeedit: Seriously, I'm going to drop this to avoid any sort of potential flamewar, and I hope you will as well.