"we need a more nuanced scale of what is morally acceptable or not that includes various forms of intelligence (without the same logic being used to treat disabled people poorly)"
Explain the discrepancy.
Explain the discrepancy.
I find the comparison between the treatment of mentally handicapped people and smarter animals to be a very interesting moral issue. I've not seen an argument that doesn't essentially boil down to "but humans are better".
http://www.amazon.com/Open-Man-Animal-Giorgio-Agamben/dp/080...
Its comforting to know that human rights are a binary function and not a sliding scale, even if you'd end up on the top end.