When, from a view-of-possibility unknown to them, a whole species is dumb, how can any individually be properly so identified?
The answer of course is that they can't, and that only the doubly dense so involve themselves.
...Oh yeah, this equally applies to an individual, and his judgment of the intelligence of his own thinking.
Is that *your* blog?
No, it isn't.
Whoever you quoted thinks of him/herself as a mere "animal", or less. Poor thing.