A possible way to look at this is that its just one consequence of neurodiversity.
Most people share a set of biases towards the answer to an ethical question according to a certain moral system, thus only the most rational, intelligent or those who devote the most time to pondering such questions are likley to overcome this bias.
Psychopaths have a different set of biases, so it dosen’t take above average rationality to see the “right” answers according to a moral framework on some issues where “normal” people have a very hard time considering things dispassionately.
Note: Seeing the “right” answer according to a moral framework/ethical system and choosing to answer in a manner consistent with this on a poll or when questioned dosen’t necessarily mean one embraces it as his own. Since a variant of utilitarianism is perhaps the default implicit framework of modern society, respondents may may just be trying to model it so as to mimic proper responses in order to fit in or signal the right affiliations. This seems especially plausible for highly functional psychopaths. In which case they may be failing because they don’t really understand what it is like to think with those biases in place and don’t really know in which direction they are likley to shift typical answers, something a rationalist psychopath would strive pretty hard to take into account.
A possible way to look at this is that its just one consequence of neurodiversity.
Most people share a set of biases towards the answer to an ethical question according to a certain moral system, thus only the most rational, intelligent or those who devote the most time to pondering such questions are likley to overcome this bias.
Psychopaths have a different set of biases, so it dosen’t take above average rationality to see the “right” answers according to a moral framework on some issues where “normal” people have a very hard time considering things dispassionately.
Note: Seeing the “right” answer according to a moral framework/ethical system and choosing to answer in a manner consistent with this on a poll or when questioned dosen’t necessarily mean one embraces it as his own. Since a variant of utilitarianism is perhaps the default implicit framework of modern society, respondents may may just be trying to model it so as to mimic proper responses in order to fit in or signal the right affiliations. This seems especially plausible for highly functional psychopaths. In which case they may be failing because they don’t really understand what it is like to think with those biases in place and don’t really know in which direction they are likley to shift typical answers, something a rationalist psychopath would strive pretty hard to take into account.