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Re: Definition of Sapience - IQ6+ and other stuff
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Besides, that topic gets dangerously close to the abortion debate. When is a human bundle of cells a person? Let's stick to what is sapience, please.
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It effectively functions as a MASSIVE negative Talent for the non-sapient. I would rather lump anything IQ6 as sapient, and those with less not, for simplicity's sake. A profoundly retarded human with IQ5 isn't sapient. But if they were my child, I wouldn't give a damn. I would love and care for them just as I would an IQ 13 child. My best friend may qualify for IQ 8, but she is a better person than many posters.
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05-04-2012, 09:42 PM | #125 |
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Any animal that can't talk on account of being non-sapient gets Mute (Cannot Speak), and things like Innumerate and Non-Iconographic, so it isn't really unbalanced.
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05-04-2012, 09:59 PM | #127 |
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Not anymore than any other IQ5 animal. If they can, then they aren't IQ 5. Anyone slower to learn than a smart dog or average monkey is not magically sapient just for being human.
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05-04-2012, 10:04 PM | #128 |
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Re: Sapience and the Lack Therof
In which case they get Cannot Speak and so on. That doesn't mean that humans aren't sapient.
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05-14-2012, 10:10 AM | #129 |
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05-14-2012, 10:24 AM | #130 |
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Re: Sapience and the Lack Therof
"Feature: Sapient [0]" as given by the "Racial Template: Human [0]" package.
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