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Cancerous tumors represent corrupted cells or "hyperindividualists" that enrich themselves at the absolute expense of the host, and may end up killing it and th
by pphysch 4y ago
Cancerous tumors represent corrupted cells or "hyperindividualists" that enrich themselves at the absolute expense of the host, and may end up killing it and themselves in the process.
- thegrimmest 4y agoThis requires a view that "society" is some sort of organism. Not everyone holds this view. Some of us think that we're a collection of individuals agreeing only to resolve disputes nonviolently (read: coexist not cooperate). It's also immediately problematic. Who gets to steer this organism?
- pixl97 4y agoIt is very weird that we think of ourselves as individuals, and not at minimum a part of some small collective. Those people ignore all evolutionary history that we didn't develop as individuals at all.
- pphysch 4y agoBy that reasoning, you are a collection of cells individually agreeing to coexist. If you are an organism/individual/ensouled being, then a society can be as well. > Who gets to steer this organism? It suggests the importance of a central nervous system (e.g. government).
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