RE: The reason religion is so powerful
June 9, 2021 at 1:15 am
(This post was last modified: June 9, 2021 at 2:49 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
(June 9, 2021 at 1:03 am)Ravenshire Wrote: Actually, I was commenting on your intellectual dishonesty in quoting an entire line of text, except for the bit you found inconvenient. But, you do you...
Why would I find it inconvenient to insert the parenthetical (etymologically, parasitism by theft) after I wrote klepto-parasitism?
Do you not realize that when you click the parasitism hyperlink it takes you to the very definition I've been defending:
"Parasitism is a symbiotic relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life."
Obviously, kleptoparasitism is using the word parasite symbolically not literally. The aforementioned paper even uses a scenario of a bird catching a mouse that was running away from a cat, to describe the bird as a kleptoparasite. Clearly, this isn't parasitism in the conventional sense, it's just theft with a tiara.
