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Re:Before cancer kills, it cheats by lotsofpulp on Saturday April 07, 2018 @01:20PM (#16781657)
Ignoring timescale, modeling a single tumor as a parasite of humans seems the same as modeling humanity as parasites of nature/world/universe.
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Re:Before cancer kills, it cheats by TeMPOraL on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:42PM (#16782097)
And if nature/world/universe was sentient, it would be angry at us and it would want to fight us. And if tumors were sentient, they would assert their rights to live and write their own rules.

Alas, we're the only sentient beings in this comparison, which makes tumors bad and universe a resource, by our standards - i.e. the only ones that matter.

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