(not my OC nor my OP, just helping spread the message around:-)

  • rabber@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    I’m a pessimist in that even in the best possible situation humans would still find a way to overpopulate the earth until no solution is viable. We are parasites

    • stickly@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Don’t disagree that civilization is a parasite, but a lot of parasites evolve to not kill their host 🙂

    • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      We are categorically not parasites. We don’t live in/on another organism deriving nutritional value from the bodies as hosts

      We and other animals eat plants/plan eaters directly. We are not hosted by plants or plant eaters.

      If that were the case, other animals would also be parasites. At most, we are predators

      There are many definitions of parasites tho and all hinge on the time the parasite spends in/on the host