This was an intriguing read. Initially, kindness seems to deteriment both sides, but over time and battles, the ants find a way to use the grasshoppers without either being fully destroyed. The real question is whether the grasshopper is still itself, despite its consciousness being taken by the ants. In my opinion, the ants should have massacred all of the grasshoppers as food and eliminated the issue completely, but that discounts their feelings and survival. If they assisted in gathering food together, I think it would have worked as a symbiotic relationship.