That person was me I'm not sure if you're looking for intellectual dialogue, validation of your inferiority, or someone to comfort you by telling you that you're as good as anyone else. I'm def not going to be a party to validating someone who values a person by their intellect at the expense of their humanity or manners. If you just want to be smarter than others simply for the sake of being intellectually superior then you're on your own buddy.
Conceit is never warranted. Maybe you confuse conceit with confidence? Confidence w/o conceit impresses me. IMO intelligence can never make up for compassion... if the goal of life is human growth. Is that the goal? To me it is. I don't think being simply a biological computer would lead to a very satisfying life. I have wondered if I would trade compassion for a bit more intelligence but that was only because compassion can be very painful.
Okay, sorry for going off topic but your post helped me to think out a few things.
Envying someone born with more intelligence is understandable. Learning comes easier to them. Admiring intelligence as an accomplishment... not so understandable since it isn't in fact an accomplishment. Intelligence is inborn... it isn't something a person can acquire or accomplish.
Now I bet you're really regretting your post I hope you don't though. It obviously meant something to you. And you caused a few of us to think.