A lot of the conflicts arise simply due to our different ways of thinking and understanding each other's thoughts.

People on ppd were tested on EQ/SQ.

In general, bpers' reported scores showed higher compulsive empathy, and rpers generally showed higher systematizing. That appears to fit with the type of arguments we often have.

When I looked at the "SMV" concept, my first thoughts were on what it might mean and if it made sense. Only after having a confident enough understanding, did I care to consider how I feel about it subjectively. A lot of others seem to put more emphasis on how they or others would feel about the concept first.

Another is example is the "sexual strategy is amoral" concept. When I first looked at it and thought about it, it made perfect sense. The quality of an action being part of a "sexual strategy" does not tell me much about whether the action itself is moral or amoral. I even thought of a quick analogy in my mind using mathematics. It made perfect sense to me, and I have not been given a reason to question it since the start.

Several times to me alone, and dozens of times on ppd in general, the following series of events occurred:

• Abe makes inaccurate statement based on misunderstanding of X concept.
• Bob, a compulsive systematizer, compulsively thinks about the technical implications, and explains to Abe that Abe's argument is based on misunderstanding.
• Carl as a compulsive empathisizer can't help but think about how such a concept is offensive and compulsively acts on this feeling, so he starts lecturing to Bob about why X concept is "bad" for one reason or another (morality or some other non-technical reason).
• Bob explains why he does not care to lectured to (maybe because he already knows and agrees, and that he was only providing a technical correction; or maybe because he doesn't care about the limitations X concept).
• Abe and Carl do not care about Bob's technical sentiments.

It seems to me that a lot of arguments stem from the way people compulsively think about certain concepts, and lack of acceptance of the way other people tend to think (which in many cases might not be a choice for them).