Are viruses alive, and if so, why are they such a**holes?
Are viruses alive, and if so, why are they such a**holes?
Aiden Richardson
Luis Johnson
>Are viruses alive
They're a borderline case exhibiting some behavior that gets associated with the concept living but also lacking some behavior that sometimes gets specified as a fundamental component of what gets called living.
>why are they such a**holes?
I think you're conflating "alive" with "having agency." Plants are alive but we generally don't attribute any deliberate agenda to them.
Justin Ortiz
Viruses aren't alive, they're entities that exist in a metastable state until interacting with a cellular receptor.
Chase Reyes
Well, viruses aren't actually native to this planet, They're actually xenobiota from Proxima Centauri b and possibly created by an intelligent extraterrestrial xenophile trying to corrupt human genetics slowly over generations to match their own.
This is a form of 'biological terraforming', to ease reproduction and assimilation.
This has been covered by the New World Order since the late-1800s and is currently under the custody of the current leading Masonic Order, as lain down by their forefathers, the Illuminati.
Now, I know you're all going to try and redirect me to /x/ and ask for proof, well I have none that I can post (safely).
Just be careful and don't believe what the MSM tells you, nor the MSC for that matter.
Sebastian Scott
Biological viruses are alive in the same way that computer viruses are software -- they're just ways of exploiting vulnerabilities in their respective systems.
Not all biological viruses are assholes -- some bacteriophages can kill pathogenic bacteria and help people (they actually use phage therapy in some places and it's more effective than antibiotics) and there's even a theory that the nucleus in eukaryotes evolved through an endosymbiotic relationship with a mimivirus-like ancestor early on in the history of life.
Jace Ward
Isn't there currently human trials being conducted in the US with re-engineered viruses (I forget which) to solely combat cancerous tissue?
James Rodriguez
That sounds like it could back fire horribly
Andrew Perry
Oh, you mean: if it mutates and starts causing lysis in healthy human tissue and then escapes laboratory conditions?
Jonathan Miller
Yes!
Evan Jones
And the best of it is, that it reprograms the cancer tells it infects to start producing copies of the virus to aid in propagation.