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by greazy 495 days ago
As someone who works on viruses, we don't worry or care whether viruses are alive.

It's more of a philosophical question, and distilled down its really about whether viruses fit into a human centric view point of the world. We like to classify things into discrete groups. Biology is not discrete.

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I'm about 3/4 done with The Demon in the Freezer (about: Level 4 labwork) and viruses seem very much willed-to-live...