C33. It's pretty telling that you want to try to school a biologist on parasitism. For interest!
And here's where you -- and most non experts -- pose it incompletely. Nature doesn't deal in individuals, but rather in POPULATIONS. Good parasites DO kill, they kill off those in a population whose immune systems aren't up to the resistance task. Malaria is a good example. Who survives? -- the fittest segment of that population -- from the parasite's perspective, the fittest to be ongoing surviving hosts for the parasite's thefts of biological resources. So, Bravo for the analogy. It sort of works, but it'd be better if somebody died here -- and unfortunately, they're all surviving to propagate more war crimes.
C33. It's pretty telling that you want to try to school a biologist on parasitism. For interest!
And here's where you -- and most non experts -- pose it incompletely. Nature doesn't deal in individuals, but rather in POPULATIONS. Good parasites DO kill, they kill off those in a population whose immune systems aren't up to the resistance task. Malaria is a good example. Who survives? -- the fittest segment of that population -- from the parasite's perspective, the fittest to be ongoing surviving hosts for the parasite's thefts of biological resources. So, Bravo for the analogy. It sort of works, but it'd be better if somebody died here -- and unfortunately, they're all surviving to propagate more war crimes.