Just thought this after the made of worms post.
What are the worms full of? Bacteria. Our gut bacteria is vital so are we eating so they can process it for us or are we eating to feed them?
Lots of these bacteria probably exist without us. We can’t exist without them but we do make a very nice house where they can live. So they keep us around.
Hopefully our bacterial overlords won’t rise up against us any time soon.
They occasionally do. But we have developed antibiotic technology to war crime them back into passivity.
If only we could target them better. As it is, we kill off lots of passive and allied bacteria when attacking the harmful ones.
We call those “acceptable losses”
Coloratteral damage