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As with many things, this is also more complex. This article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303694650_Primate_reinfection_with_gastrointestinal_paras
by Fomite 10y ago
As with many things, this is also more complex. This article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303694650_Primate_reinfection_with_gastrointestinal_parasites_Behavioural_and_physiological_predictors_of_parasite_acquisition https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303694650_Primate_r... suggests that higher status animal in this particular group have a higher parasite burden.
- daodedickinson 10y agoNietszche says to measure one's strength by the number of parasites one can support.
- reflexive 10y ago"It is not impossible to imagine society so conscious of its power that it could allow itself the noblest luxury available to it, – that of letting its malefactors go unpunished. ‘What do I care about my parasites’, it could say, ‘let them live and flourish: I am strong enough for all that!’ . . . Justice, which began by saying ‘Everything can be paid off, everything must be paid off ’, ends by turning a blind eye and letting off those unable to pay, – it ends, like every good thing on earth, by sublimating itself. The self-sublimation of justice: we know what a nice name it gives itself – mercy; it remains, of course, the prerogative of the most powerful man, better still, his way of being beyond the law." -- Genealogy of Morals, 2nd Essay, Chapter 10 "In the spot where the strong are weak, where the noble are over tender, there the parasite builds its horrid nest; dwelling in the sick corners of the great man . . . and it is just the highest species that harbors the greatest number of parasites." -- Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part 3, Section 56: "On Old and New Tablets", Number 19
- RockyMcNuts 10y agoLow status is stressful. And so is high status.
- Fomite 10y agoThe suggestion is more high status -> more exposure to any parasite whose transmission isn't environmentally mediated.
- interfixus 10y agoForced, involuntary low status is stressful. Opting out and just not giving a four letter word does not have to be.
- spacehacker 10y agoI enjoy my stress with sauna, massages and whine.