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> No longer we can say that "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."

We can. Humans are equal in dignity and rights. That doesn't say anything about genetics.

Humans are already a certain type of genetics. Your cat is not equal to you. Not in rights, and not even in dignity. This implies that your ability for intelligence and learning is what defines your rights. And if some population will have an average IQ of geniuses then they will eventually have different rights than you do. Maybe not openly on paper, but definitely in practice.

You're probably right. Read this yet?

The Egalitarian Fallacy

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-019-00129-w

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