Question

Are humans parasites? If not, why?

Answer 1

A parasite is an organism that resides on the body on other and extracts food from it.

The person whose body they live in is the host.

However, some may confuse it with babies but in such cases, the baby and mother are from the same species not different.

Hence, no human beings are not parasitic.

Answer 2

No, almost certainly not. We have many more behaviours of a predator[1]than a parasite[2]. Indeed parasites don’t often make a habit of killing their hosts, rather they keep them alive. And in any case we don’t tend to live inside the body of a living host, to my knowledge.