every living thing has to eat but parasitism... i mean, parasites live on you and inside you, and they don't benefit you.

lichen is algae and bacteria helping each other out.

humans herding sheep, goats and cattle is not parasitism, the animals pretty much live their natural life under protection and instead of tearing them apart slowly we kill them with precision, and honor every part of them, feeding our plants, wearing their skins, ornamenting our walls with their horns.

most of the stuff that lives inside us is not parasitic, it is a mutual benefit between us and them.

it kinda contradicts the whole nihilistic heat death of the universe model of reality that living things generally are helping each other. the parasites are outliers. probably a great deal of relationships between life forms are actually about crowding out the space where parasites might be.

not only are they cheap and fake they are depressing.