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Subject: Re: Reply to Doug ALan
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Date: Sat, 23-Jun-84 00:52:27 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 23 00:52:27 1984
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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