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28 Post author: Punoxysm 16 October 2014 05:58PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 October 2014 04:40:52AM 7 points [-]

A lower bound on your first claim: Most everyone accepts that there exist people with severe intellectual disability. For many causes, the degree of impairment may range smoothly from severe into the "normal" range, where the bright lines are imposed by functional requirements like living independently or managing health care, and not by any well-defined abstract mental capability.