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It doesn't sound pedantic, it sounds dogmatic. How do you definitively know that viruses have no purpose? The parent is free to make a statement about purpose
by ijidak 3y ago
It doesn't sound pedantic, it sounds dogmatic.
How do you definitively know that viruses have no purpose?
The parent is free to make a statement about purpose.
- vibrio 3y agoJust going by the definition of purpose, which I would take as the reason viruses exist. I think there could have a purpose in their “actions”, such as changing enevelope tropism to broaden target cell range, or more tightly binding a cellular protein to inhibit antiviral defenses. But to me, a non-living entity like a virus itself having a purpose for existence beyond making more virus sounds philosophical or religious— which is fine, but just not how I think about it.