Most organizations derive from ideas shared by members and can exist independently of other groups or society. Society groups {parasitic organization} can depend on other groups or whole society for money and influence. Parasitic organizations derive from wants or ideas of people in other groups.
examples
Drug traffickers, organized crime, religious and other cults, and terror organizations are parasites on society.
effects
They gain money and/or power from others' wrong, illegal, or immoral ideas. They pose dangers to society because they are outside society and because they increase wrong, illegal, or immoral ideas.
defenses
To counter parasitic organizations, society must remove demand for satisfying wrong, illegal, or immoral wants or ideas. Perhaps, alternative ideas or activities work. Perhaps, society can satisfy wrong, illegal, or immoral wants or ideas, because alternatives are worse. Retaliation and punishment typically make remaining parasitic-group members more aggressive and more group oriented.
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