> The goal of a virus is to spread genetic material, killing its host is an inadvertent second order effect of replication. As an aside, I find it very amusing

> The goal of a virus is to spread genetic material, killing its host is an inadvertent second order effect of replication. As an aside, I find it very amusing that you used this sentence after your paragraphes on emergent behavior and randomness. Finalism and anthropomorphism are really hard to avoid even when you clearly know virus have no goal.