• Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com
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    7 months ago

    Worth mentioning: life is a construct created by humans. We decide if it’s alive, just like we decided if anything else was alive. There’s no definite answer that science can provide on this topic. It can only provide humanity with more facts with which we can contrive a distinction.

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      7 months ago

      We’ve given life a set of repeatable rules that create a definition. Viruses don’t meet the rules.

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      Yes, everything is a social construct and reality is fake and bad