If EVERYONE was like YOU would the World be a better place?

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I probably wouldn't notice, because everyone would be tucked away in their cubby holes.

You would still need government. Even if people found it contrary to their nature to be cruel to one another, you would still need some kind of organization to do projects that are bigger than a single person, and to make laws that keep things running smoothly. For example, the government can collect taxes in order to build roads that everyone will use, form aid groups to clean up when a hurricane hits, and make laws that say things like, "Everyone must drive on the same side of the road," or, "Your dog should be vaccinated against rabies." You would probably even still need police, though they would be doing more civil-order work and less criminal-catching. Those are things that private groups can do, but they're best done by government because a decent government takes input from everyone and is responsible to everyone.

I know quite a few people here are unusually non-violent, though. I'm one of them. It interests me. Why is it that autism--ostensibly associated with a lack of understanding of other people--might also be associated with the tendency not to want to hurt others or even come into conflict with them?

I don't think it is a matter of morality, really. Many of us have strong moral systems, sure, but it seems more like it's just not in our nature to want to beat people up. When we dislike someone we tend to avoid them. We fight when cornered, but flee or hide when not. I wonder what it is about the experience of having autism that makes us not want to get into fights. Maybe we're just not very good at fighting and prefer to stay out of it just the way a clumsy person usually prefers to stay off the dance floor?

Perhaps because that involves a lot of interpersonal interaction.

Um, no. There needs to be a diversity of skills and a diversity of minds in this world. Only if I could do everything very well I would say that, but I can only say I'm good at certain things. So no, somebody else has to compensate for my and everyone else's weaknesses in order to have a balanced society.

No, because I support diversity: neurodiversity, physical diversity, and diversity of beliefs.

10 people in a room redirecting the conversation to their own interests while being annoyed that the other 9 keep railroading the conversation and struggling to remember what that expression that everyone else is wearing means, and why no one is picking up on the frustrated face you are definitely showing them!

Dear god no...

If everyone were like me there'd be no modern day conveniences. That would really suck. Very few of the inventions that we take for granted would exist.

There'd be very little conflict in a world of 7 billion pushovers. There probably wouldn't be 7 billion people though since food production would exist on a much smaller scale due to lack of technology. Diseases that are treatable in this world would have no known treatment in my world.

The diseases would cause a lot of pain but we wouldn't take it out on each other. We'd suffer quite a bit but we wouldn't fight no matter how much stress is added to the mix. Agression wouldn't be a quality that anybody would possess and there'd be no need for assertiveness when nobody is out to take advantage of anyone else.

We'd all have the belief that people can decide what is good for them even if nobody else can see it as anything other than negative. Whatever crazy idea you've got won't be seen as self-inflicted pain by others. Nobody will pity you for the things you do to yourself because they know that what they see as pain isn't really pain to the person choosing it and they respect that. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean the next person has the same aversion to that thing.

The ideas you could have would be very different due to a difference in common knowledge. A lot of things well known in this reality wouldn't be well known there.

There would be no prosecution of drug use but we wouldn't have any synthetic drugs. Everyone would just use psychedelic plants. People would spend 20% of their time hallucinating.

In short, people would be kinder to each other but life would be a million times harder. It wouldn't actually be a better world.

No the world wouldn't be better if everyone was like me, but it would be a much nicer place for me if just ONE person was like me.

No, it wouldn't. Without diversity, this world would be an awfully boring place. Not to mention, everyone's skills and interests would be kind of lop-sided. Diversity is the spice of life!

Diversity is absolutely required.

A world filled with Godiva champagne truffles? Hell yeah!

Probably not, I think there needs to be different sorts of people.