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 Post subject: Are we parasites?
PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 4:52 pm 
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Definition on parasite: "an organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense."

Are we parasites?


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 Post subject: Re: Are we parasites?
PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 7:34 pm 
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Lemme see... we're on this forum and it does have a host. So it looks like we ARE parasites. But we're friendly and helpful, so we're like the good bacteria in the gut not like salmonella and E. coli. How's THAT for a lovely comparison? It'll sound better if we think of ourselves as probiotics rather than intestinal bacteria.



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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2016 10:55 pm 
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We're all good parasites :bliss100:



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Technically that would make us symbiotes, not parasites. ;)


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 7:00 am 
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If the organism is earth there might be some good parasites on here, but most of human kind is indeed just killing the planet.



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