Why Was My Thread Moved From Adult In Depth to PPR?

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NFW for "No Free Will" and 100% GED for "100% Genetically and Environmentally Determined".

My reason for abbreviating them was because I think that a lot of the power, and appeal, of the Spectrum labels/diagnoses is in the "determinism" they express. They "provide" scientific support for/recognition of our being, in profound, lifelong and wide-ranging ways, ( not just violent, destructive, or temporarily as with some other dx's ) determined by our genes and environment.

I wondered whether describing oneself as being GED, or having NFW, could, while not having medical backing, have the same effect, if expressed like a dx.

The idea that our "I" is nothing but the flapping of the door between inner and outer environments is actually zen buddhist, and ( full ) understanding that everything is buddha/the universe, that we are one with it, nothing independent about us at all, is considered the highest state to reach before enlightenment.

I believe that the Autism dx is liberating for many because it casts doubt on, cracks open, the dominant western belief in people's behaviour being "blameworthy" or "praiseworthy". The AS/Autism dx is like the thin end of a wedge which in its entirety says "I have NFW; I am 100% GED".

As Derk Pereboom says in his book "Living Without Free Will", our best science is already telling us this ( "we have NFW" ). Medical approaches are always 12-17 years behind scientific progress.

I posted this thread in In Depth Adult Discussion because I wanted this to be as much a discussion about the power of labels like AS/Autism as about free will; how for the first time science is handing out labels which recognise not only that violence or short term "aberrations" are determined, ( and put people in hospitals rather than prisons because of it ), but that whole swathes of behaviour, neutral and positive, are too.

This thread is intended to be a discussion of the AS dx aswell as the "NFW" one, which is why I did not post it in PPR.

I may be wrong, but I don't think that there is any other medical diagnosis which combines determinism of the person to such an extent with so many inoffensive, non-violent, non-"ill" behaviours. The autism spectrum dx is unique, and revolutionary. This is not just a PPR matter.

Why was it not allowed to remain where I posted it, in AID?