• Wheaties [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    The analogy works fine. A virus cannot propagate in a vacuum, it does need a body. Specifically the body of a compatible cell.

    • MF_COOM [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Wait are you trying to suggest that instead of having an idealist quality things have dialectical natures?

    • GrandpaOpal [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Imagine acknowledging that DNA has the same relationship to a human as a virus does to a cell and then thinking that's a good thing.

      What does it mean when the body is entirely secondary to the propagation of a molecule? A virus destroys the cell without regard because it's only "goal" is to spread itself regardless of whether or not its beneficial to the cell. The only difference between a virus and your DNA is a question of strategy.

      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        You're still ascribing more importance to DNA than it deserves. The overall system of a living body is what gets propagated, chromosomes are just one part of the mechanism by which that occurs.