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malfistyesterday at 9:05 PM1 replyview on HN

Just because your immune system is fighting for your life against a parasite and doesn't have time for side quests doesn't make contracting a parasite good for you


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Brian_K_Whiteyesterday at 10:09 PM

Just because you call something a parasite doesn't make it bad for you. It might be bad, or good, or some of both, or depend on other factors at different times.

If you count cells and genes instead of mass, every human hosts more non-human life than human. Call them parasites and delete them and die.

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