It's now 2016 and the cure for autism is widely known. This brings up a troubling ethical quandary ; is it morally acceptable to cure autism, especially in cases where the autistic subject does not wish to be cured?
I posit that it is indeed ethical to cure autistic people. Autism is a debilitating condition which erodes the subjects ability to feel empathy, rendering them into little more than dangerous anti-social animals incapable of functioning within society. It's a side-affect of the autism which distorts their perceptions, making them believe that they are valid and worthwhile people instead of hollow shambling caricatures of humanity. By curing autism, we could promote a marginally safer, happier and more productive world. Interestingly, empathy is the one thing saving autistics from wide-scale curing. As decent feeling human beings capable of empathy we have a propensity towards anthropomorphising non-humans , seeing human values and human traits where they don't exist as a way of better relating to them. By projecting non-existent human traits onto autistics, we generally feel guilty or reluctant to cure them, thus perpetuating a vicious cycle where autistics are free to live, breed and often become violent antisocial and noncontributing parasites on soceity while we as decent people are unwilling to cure them because they remind us too much of real people.
What do you guys think? Should we cure autistics or are there valid reasons not to beyond our own sentimentality towards human-shaped animals?