Re:Judas Goats: Drug-Addicted Masters of Deceit Once Ruled t...
by chasil on Friday November 18, 2022 @07:31PM
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I merely seek to laud your refined sense of responsibility and duty, and to express wholehearted agreement that humankind is the most vicious of creatures, unrivaled in the infliction of suffering.
Were you to provide yourself as a host to these poor and unfortunate organisms, you would doubtless attest that their impact upon you pales to insignificance compared with the misery imposed by our species.
A parasite doesn't stalk and hunt the same way a predator does prey. In this case, the larvae infect tiny fleas, which are then consumed by people and other animals drinking unfiltered water. It doesn't have a brain, as such; just a nerve ring and some sensory hairs that cue it to start eating once it is in the right environment.