Cohens argument This quote from the article Cohens position implies that while a human being with the mental capacity of a mouse has full moral standing a mutant chimpanzee with an IQ of  who regularly contributed articles on philosophy to Wikipedia would have no rights whatever seems a little POV for me While it could be argued that the above is true I dont think the article should simply state it as fact It could equally well be argued to be false eg a mutant chimpanzee would be a different kind to normal chimpanzees and so could have rights and a nonmutant chimpanzee would not have the linguistic abilities to contribute to wikipedia or the moral concepts to be a moral being however intelligent Perhaps it should say that that is an objection to his view rather than an actual problem with it I dont like to edit articles myself I am an anonymous newbie