cohen's argument this quote from the article cohen s position implies that while a human being with the mental capacity of a mouse has full moral standing a mutant chimpanzee with an i q 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 don't 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 non mutant 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 don't like to edit articles myself i am an anonymous newbie