[larnmar]

> I'm more intelligent than someone with Downs Syndrome, but that doesn't mean their life is less valuable does it?

Doesn’t it? It’s something we don’t say, because it’s horrendously impolite, and I wouldn’t say it myself outside the context of this conversation, but yes, the life of an intelligent person is worth less than that of a person with Down’s syndrome.

Don’t take my word for it though, look at revealed preferences. How many parents abort their unborn Down’s Syndrome babies?

[bobajeff]

>It’s something we don’t say, because it’s horrendously impolite, and I wouldn’t say it myself outside the context of this conversation, but yes, the life of an intelligent person is worth less than that of a person with Down’s syndrome.

That is controversial but probably not in the way that you originally meant.