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writes:You only have to stray into the world of biology and you will see the resemblance between humans and parasites. Ok let me explain... The nature of parasites... A parasite lives on a living organism, known as a host. They contribute nothing but destruction to the animal host. A parasite will feed on the host until the host is weak and will most probably die. In the parasite kingdom, they multiply profusely, they care nothing for the host as their only mission is to make sure their species survives. When the host is completely destroyed by the parasite, the parasite will then move onto to another living organism and repeat the process. Now here is something interesting, when living organisms are infected by parasites they sometimes raise their body heat in an attempt to kill the unwelcome guest. The nature of humans... Humans live on this earth as parasites live on their host. So far, we have not contributed anything to our host (the earth). We destroy the earth with as many things as we can invent. We use the earth for the benefits of our survival. If aliens visited out planet they would see destruction. They would see patches of the earth polluted, and killed. They would see bald spots where no life grows. We are feeding on the earth as a parasite feeds on an animal. In the end, our host will die. Now, we humans reproduce for the survival of our species, as that is our motive, to make sure we continue to live. Eventually we humans will need to leave this planet as at some point it will die, as an organism does.And the other interesting thing, the earth is warming up right? Well so does the living host, maybe the earth is trying to get rid of us in the same way the host gets rid of a parasite. It’s likely isn’t it? How many things have happened on the earth these years? Volcanic eruptions? Floods? Earthquakes? The earth is trying its best to get rid of us parasites. It is sick of us feeding on its life and flesh. So what do you readers think? Do you think that it is plausible?Are we really parasites? Redrose xxx
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reader, Odds  +, writes (19 February 2011):
 This appears to have nothing to do with relationships, but I'll bite.
If your definition of "parasite" just means consuming resources in order to survive, thrive, and reproduce - all organisms are parasites. That's what living things do. The only difference between humans and other animals is that we're better at it.
Herbivores will eat everything in their path until there's nothing at all to eat, plants will push out other plants to make room for their own survival, and the only reason any part of nature exists in a balance is because when evolution doens't form a balanced ecosystem, everything in it dies.
"Parasite" has a negative sound to it, but life-forms which exist only to feed and kill serve a vital role in population control. Otherwise, you get that herbivore problem I mentioned.
Then, there's your overly narrow definition of "life." A few billion years ago, the earth's natural state was quite a bit different - for instance, the atmosphere had a lot less oxygen. Then algae-like green stuff evolved, transformed our atmosphere, and through climate change created the kind of life we know about - you know, everything from aerobic bacteria to complex, multi-celled life forms capable of creating a vast network of electronically-transmitted naked pictures.
What have lions really contributed? What have army ants given back to the earth? Is the world really a better place because of the California condor, poison oak, or anglerfish? It's all relative. Life is life, but Earth doesn't care - because Earth is just a 5.97 × 10^24 kilogram chunk of iron with a thin film of dirt, air, and water up top. We only think the living things are interesting because we're one of them; if the Earth cares about anything, it would seem to be rocks, not life.
Or, as Geroge Carlin said, maybe we only evolved because Mother Earth wanted plastic. Then we'll go extinct, and it'll be Earth - plus plastic.
Not gonna touch the global warming thing, except to say that mass extinctions happen on a regular basis. The dinosaurs were hardly unique. In fact, we're about due for several supervolcanoes and an ice age right now, any one of which could kill a large chunk of the human population - and that's before we get into meteorites, gamma ray bursts, or any of the other things that could kill us all. The universe is a hostile place to us insignificant life-forms.
So, yes, we consume resources in order to survive - that's what living organisms do. I really don't think the Earth cares what we do with the oil, either - burn it, spill it, whatever, Earth doesn't care, we do. You know, before the Deepwater Horizon incident, natural oil leakage accounted for half the crude oil released into the ocean? The Earth also saw fit to pack the deserts of New Mexico, Australia, and parts of Africa with radioactive isotopes, and I don't think it much matters to nature what happens to that stuff.
I'm a Christian, so the whole Pagan Earth-mother thing just comes off a nonsense to me. Humans have significance in a spiritual sense - I have faith in that. Honestly, if I had to rely on objective measures of worth, life in general is too small to mean anything.
Of course, it's all a moot point anyway. Eventually, we'll either go extinct or get space exploration figured out, as long as we can keep the pagans out of the way. Nature saw fit to give us big ol' brains, and I figure that if nature did that, it probably doesn't want us living in caves.
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