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Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 10 hours agotechnically viruses aren’t alive. They just use cellular machinery to replicate and thats it.
Comment on I'd have to hear her argument, but...
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 10 hours agotechnically viruses aren’t alive. They just use cellular machinery to replicate and thats it.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Eh, it’s not really that cut and dry. You could debate either way with plenty of evidence, in the end it’s really a limit to the semantics of language
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Thats pretty neat “you cant kill something thats not alive”. Can viruses respond to stimuli? We consider bacteria alive but viruses are debated, wheres the line? are enzymes alive? Are prions alive? cool article.