Talk:Working animal

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The "Human toil" section was somewhat confusing both in terms of sentence structure and content. I renamed it "Human labour" as suggested below and tried to streamline it a bit and make it more clear without losing any relevant information. Also fixed a few minor mistakes. Removed a few things which aren't relevant to working animal topic, e.g. the comment about Homo sapiens/wise and "Nevertheless, in terms of natural history, the period when culture allowed humans to live significantly differently to animals (hunting and gathering is essentially animal subsistence) is still too short period of time to count as more then an experiment." --7 July 2006

the Latin scientific name (of humans), sapiens meaning 'wise' or knowledgeable, is a somewhat presumptive declaration of genetic superiority justified only by its high intelligence.

What, this isn't enough?

[edit] Human toil?

The first two paragraphs of the 'Human toil' section don't add much to the article (not to mention the characterization of the scientific term Homo sapiens sapiens as 'arrogant'); the second one doesn't even make sense. On top of that, the title of the section -- 'Human toil' -- is a bit loaded. Perhaps, a more neutral name would be 'Human labor', and the section would inform that even though humans are involved in physical labor, and are technically animals, they are not considered 'working animals', although some humans have been treated worse than working animals. The talk about slavery and exploitation can instead become links in a 'See also' section. --Ze ivan 05:48, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I've removed the first two paragraphs and changed the heading title. This whole article needs to be cleaned up anyway. Graham talk 08:06, 2 July 2006 (UTC)