I think if there is a medical or biological link it's important to identify it so it can be treated.
Social isolation puts any minority group type person at risk. Especially those who are picked on.
So we either change those who pick on them (i.e. address the bigotry) or we do something with these misfits to keep them away from everybody else who can't stand them.
That doesn't, however, mean that I endorse the belief that anyone with Asperger's is a ticking time bomb who will eventually detonate.
But imagine if that became a stereotype for AS people. I'm trying to help Trad see that. Stereotypes are hurtful. It's hard for someone who is empathy-challenged to understand that unless we can personalize the experience for them.
Also, I am always hesitant to accept that people who commit these crimes are mentally or biologically compromised.
Because I believe that ideas power everything, I tend to agree. But we know that people can display trends among types or groupings of people. For some it may seem easier to just ignore the root of the problem and throw the baby out with the bathwater. (...or just mail the whole tub to Africa.)
While some may be, there are also those who will use it to their advantage to get away with violent crimes, including murder.
Some may be, and would abuse the consideration we would give those who really need our consideration of their individual conditions, like we don't hold a person with Down's Syndrome to the same level of accountability for a reason.
Sometimes people aren't accountable for their actions. Even some people with AS who are on medications. For example, certain drugs that make people crazy... who's fault is that? I think the blame appears to fall to the professionals and drug manufacturers. A lot of people with AS are on benzos, for example.
Those drugs are responsible for psychotic breaks in a percentage of those on them, resulting in suicides and homicides or other forms of lesser violence.