@HephaistosF 🤔 I'm not really into the HBD stuff but I *did* have to reconsider equating intelligence w moral worth as part of coming to terms w fucked "gifted kid" rhetoric and having an uncle w Downs and being a horse girl seeing animal suffering as worthy of consideration
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