[FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

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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?  


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