Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdccsu3.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!07077090 From: 07077090@sdccsu3.UUCP Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Reply to Doug ALan Message-ID: <1968@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date: Sat, 23-Jun-84 00:52:27 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.1968 Posted: Sat Jun 23 00:52:27 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 24-Jun-84 00:03:47 EDT Organization: U.C. San Diego, Computer Center Lines: 16 I fail to understand your use of intelligence as the criterion for the right to exist (i.e. not to be deprived of life at another's discretion). Intelligence can be defined as more or less the ability to learn new information or behaviors and is present in varying degrees in both humans and other lifeforms. I'm pretty sure a two-year-old chimpanzee would beat most six-month old babies in an intelligence test, and certainly a newborn child cannot be said to be more "intelligent" than any adult mammal. Are you referring to some quality other than what most people call intelligence, or are you implying that there is a minimum IQ required to merit the status of "sapiens"? Mike Blyth UCSD Med Schl