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There's an important difference between a tumor and an organism: one can sustain itself, the other is a parasite. So what would obviously put humans over the li
by scythe 9y ago
There's an important difference between a tumor and an organism: one can sustain itself, the other is a parasite. So what would obviously put humans over the line? Establishing self-sufficient colonies off Earth seems to be beyond the reach of any swarm of locusts, but possibly viable in a 1000-2000 year timespan for people.
- lotsofpulp 9y agoIgnoring timescale, modeling a single tumor as a parasite of humans seems the same as modeling humanity as parasites of nature/world/universe.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoAnd if nature/world/universe was sentient, it would be angry at us and it would want to fight us. And if tumors were sentient, they would assert their rights to live and write their own rules. Alas, we're the only sentient beings in this comparison, which makes tumors bad and universe a resource, by our standards - i.e. the only ones that matter.