Aha! Excellent point! That viruses are parasites might be a critical issue, though. What do viruses really do for us? It's less a matter of whether they feel pain and more about parasitism. I hesitate to google "ethics of parasitism".
On 5/12/20 9:53 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > and Virii? Don't forget the viruses... THEY are just trying to live a > normal, robust, virus life... and they DO hole an important role in our > larger ecology. With that I might endorse the development and > distribution of a vaccine, but antivirals are somewhat questionable > morally. And that Ice9 stuff? It has a right to reproduce too... > which of course seems to lead us back around to "what means behaviour?" > is crystalization as a self-reproduction mode above the threshold? -- ☣ uǝlƃ .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... .... . ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
