Is The Human Race Essentials A Virus?

[Jahulaye]

I think this is more philosophy but apologies for putting here as cannot find the philosophy category.

Quote from agent smith in the movie, the matrix

“I'd like to share a revelation I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to another area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.”

We kill, destroy and given the chance would carry on this trend throughput space so are we more related to viruses then we think?

[Tilly2]

I don't know about related but the behavior is similar.

[bhg481]

I think the human race is behaving very much like a virus which will, eventually, kill its host (the earth) because of its greed/stupidity.

[Peter Pedant]

oh god I thought this was serious

a virus does not have enough info to code for a human
and in fact Crick ( DNA etc geddit?) said the viral DNA was so short that it would have to code for a small protein and the outer coat would be made up of polymers

around 95% DNA is to get a cell to run
and 5% does the plant or monkey bit.

but you gonna say - "oh no I mean virus in the sense that.... ( insert definition of virus that bears no relation to anyone else's) - are humans a virus according to my own definition?"

[Tilly2]

It is serious isn't it?

[Jahulaye]

Do you really need another user to tell you whether a topic is serious or not???

Pp, on a non dna level to an outsider we’re nothing more than a primitive aggressive cancer unless you beg to differ?

[Jahulaye]

If I’m correct cancer are good cells gone bad which many of humanity whether they are aware of it or not are doing the same?

[ToraToraTora]

No.

[Old_Geezer]

All species tries to expand as much as it can. The quoted description/comparison is nonsense. We don't fit the virus description that well https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5997

[douglas9401]

Who knew the common room was open at the weekend?

[vetuste_ennemi]

It's a perfectly intelligible question if you have the capacity to understand metaphor. And a good one too.

But the Matrix guy is wrong on his facts. Think grey squirrel.