Why does the cold virus even exist?

[SandyCat]

It's nothing more than some floating ball of malice that cums DNA in your cells all day so you can gargle snot for the next week

Fuck you nature

 

[Skitarii]

One of our ancestors had sex with Mr. Freeze

 

[SandyCat]

One of our ancestors had sex with Mr. Freeze

Must of been lonely ever since he had to freeze Mrs. Freeze

 

[kūhaku]

probably existed as something like covid long ago, was deadly but over time evolved to not be deadly so it could spread easier

 

[Ultrapenguin]

Life itself is nothing but arbitrary coalescences of energy, everything in the universe nothing but irrelevant aberrations on a particle's path towards the lowest possible energy state that we see as significant due to our own participation in said irrelevant process. Life ("life") exists for its own sake and begets more life for the same reason that anything in the universe does. A thing exists and continues on until its energy diffuses and runs itself out, because there has to be some path to entropy, so why not this one?

You bring up viruses, but prions are even more philosophically troubling; viruses at least have a protein capsid, but prions are simply floating bits of DNA. They're defined as protein particles that cause disease. They continue to "reproduce", or at least their vague pattern of energy coalescence is a repetitious instance through time because of the mechanisms involved in cellular function and reproduction, does that make prions a living thing? If they aren't a living thing by simply being a product maintained by the side effects of greater physical systems, then why are we living things despite being products maintained by the side effects of greater physical systems?

There is no reason to consider life or the nature of it aside from doing so for recreational purposes. But life has no objective purpose, so is everything we do not recreational? Logic is for clowns.

 

[Pimpleking55]

Life itself is nothing but arbitrary coalescences of energy, everything in the universe nothing but irrelevant aberrations on a particle's path towards the lowest possible energy state that we see as significant due to our own participation in said irrelevant process. Life ("life") exists for its own sake and begets more life for the same reason that anything in the universe does. A thing exists and continues on until its energy diffuses and runs itself out, because there has to be some path to entropy, so why not this one?

You bring up viruses, but prions are even more philosophically troubling; viruses at least have a protein capsid, but prions are simply floating bits of DNA. They're defined as protein particles that cause disease. They continue to "reproduce", or at least their vague pattern of energy coalescence is a repetitious instance through time because of the mechanisms involved in cellular function and reproduction, does that make prions a living thing? If they aren't a living thing by simply being a product maintained by the side effects of greater physical systems, then why are we living things despite being products maintained by the side effects of greater physical systems?

There is no reason to consider life or the nature of it aside from doing so for recreational purposes. But life has no objective purpose, so is everything we do not recreational? Logic is for clowns.

Eat more fiber dude, constipation make you do weird stuff.

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

Why do varuses exist in the first place. They dont live in a sense that bacteria or a cell live. They dont even eat. They are just organic robots.

 

[Chocolate Wombat]

All of the problems we have with the cold virus come from our own body's immune system overreacting to its presence. The virus itself is benign.

There's probably a great lesson in that I'm too tired to process.

Spoiler: Serious answer

Because you touch yourself at night.

edited for grammar because I am a nigger and tired

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

All of the problems we have with the cold virus come from our own body's immune system overreacting to its presence. The virus itself is benign.

You sound like rapefugee appologist.

 

[Chocolate Wombat]

You sound like rapefugee appologist.

 

[Wine em Dine em 69 em]

We’re a virus with shoes.


@Uberpenguin is right about prions though it’s grim stuff.

 

[Retink]

It exists to float around and cum in your DNA so that you can be miserable. Amusingly enough, I used to get sick every year until I found out about a chronic illness and started taking medication, after that I haven't had a cold in years, it's like ascending to godhood.