As someone who works on viruses, we don't worry or care whether viruses are alive. It's more of a philosophical question, and distilled down its really about w

As someone who works on viruses, we don't worry or care whether viruses are alive. It's more of a philosophical question, and distilled down its really about whether viruses fit into a human centric view point of the world. We like to classify things into discrete groups. Biology is not discrete.