Should we reclassify what it is to be human?

I live in a large cultural desert called Grimsby in the U.K. and am finding myself resorting to checking for the opposable thumb on people who I deal with in my job to make sure they are not just shaved apes, however it seems these apes do posess opposable thumbs, but have social skills and an ability to learn that makes chimps seem positively superior.


Should we reclassify these apes as a different species (even though they can interbreed with humans) and put them to work in medical research (as subjects not researchers), in circuses as cheep entertainment, or train them to do all the simple, menial, low paid jobs that we hate?


It seems that many of them are in simple, highly paid jobs, such as elictricians, builders, plumbers, E.T.C.

Should we reclassify what it is to be human?
I know exactly what you mean... I've thought that some people are just not human because they are so stupid... but we can't reclassify them.. we need to just put them to good use doing jobs the rest of us don't want to do... like maybe they don't have brains but they have brawn, or maybe beauty. Who knows... either way, maybe they have some redeeming quality which is useful.