[Main Street]

"And no one, given the choice, would like to be treated like a horse...."- dwd1

dwd1, I understand what your saying, and agree, when a man is living under normal circumstance. However, I know of many circumstances in history, if men were giving a choice, life time bondage on a Southern Plantation would have been snatched up in an instant.

[AnAmericanMother]

"And no one, given the choice, would like to be treated like a horse...."- dwd1

< joking > I would like to be treated like my horse, she is a pampered pet. < /joking > My husband says that he would like to come back as one of my cats or my dog. When he was courting me, my father had a Siamese cat that was his special pet. She had her own chair at the table and ate "people food". My DH (at the time a starving college student trying to cook stuff on an illegal hot plate in his dorm room) came over for dinner and my dad was grilling steaks outside - the cat had her own kitchen stool by the side of the grill, every so often she would reach out her paw and tap my dad on the arm, he would slice a little corner off one of the steaks and feed it to her. My DH watched this for awhile, then said, "Sir, that G.D. cat eats better than I do!"

[dwd1]

Not sure about wanting to live that way unless I were in "upper management" but I would have to say that the times were different.... At this same time, women were not encouraged to have anathesia during childbirth until Queen Victoria did so(nine kids, I think) so we have to be fair and look at things in the context of the times... Someone else stated quite accurately that our modern system of charging interest on money would be considered reprehensible from the point of view of some from other times...