Parasite: a social analysis

To a human system a parasite is identical to itself:
Causing infection and illness.
However, this is not the fault of the system,
Rather fully instigated by the trespasser
Content on deceiving the hand of its provider.

Unlike the system,
A parasite is most gluttonous and lazing,
And evolution raised it as such.

Is the parasite to blame,
Or rather to be understood as a simple manifestation of its creation?
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