skygiants

Glad it's not just me. This bit

Eventually it's revealed that the less-intelligent moose is not in fact less intelligent in any way except for the fact that there is an artificial inhibitor in his brain that prevents him from using words of more than one syllable, which gets fixed by the end of the section!

also very much reminded me of all the ~inspiring~ narratives where everyone thought this physically disabled person was intellectually disabled as well, but then it turned out they were secretly a genius who just couldn't communicate it!

Because we can respect and treat someone as an equal as long as they have at least normal intelligence on the inside; if they'd actually been intellectually disabled, then warehousing them and forgetting about them would be fine, I guess.