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Re:Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook by EGreg on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:08PM (#16887075)
Your analogy breaks down right away because people are not mere cells in the organism of a state. That is a dangerous mentality that can lead to Totalitarianism.

In your own example you alluded to cells refusing to commit apoptosis. By your analogy, it should be just and proper for people to be regularly savrificed for their state — their very lives may be required to be given up for the state to function.

I do not think we base our human societies on the law of the jungle — and certainly not on the inner workings of an organism! I doubt you are able to take this analogy very far without coming up against horrendous human rights violations.

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