Are humans a virus on earth?

Question

Humanity, what is it?

The only thing i can think of that mimicks humans is a virus, we spread, adapt and evolve like a virus. A virus will continue to spread and grow till its host dies, and than the entire virus colony dies with the host if it cannot adapt to become air born. People are talking about flying into other planets to colonize and speard our disease among the stars...

Looks like earths running out of resources and we need a new host..mars is it?

What do you think about humans and all the charcteristics we share with a virus

Answer 1

I suppose you could put it like that. Or are we like lice on someones head, or scabies on a body. Lice and Crabs have long learned to travel from one body to another so we are well behind in the progress report.

Answer 2

thanks for the matrix rerun

humans arent anything like a virus

first viruses evolve much faster to continue to propagate. certainly we APPEAR to be eating all resources through over population, but then weve only been able to study such an idea for about 20 years, out of the 50 or so thousand weve existed. also earth is only being reduced of the things WE happen to like remember that we havent actually destroyed very much. for example, all the things weve ever strip mined out of the ground are still here. iron ore was turned to steel, but that stel is still here. it hasnt gone anywhere. we took it out of the ground and put it on the ground. all the trees we ever cut down would have died and fallen down anyway.

Answer 3

Certainly, There are a lot of characteristics we shearer whit virus, but must be aware that life is not jus to put a name, tell that humanity is a virus does not have sense because is a word to mark up a group of characteristics; we have all the characteristic of a virus and even more.

Answer 4

you bet ,a scourge and a danger to the survival of our fragile planet.p.sim not a misanthrope!!

Answer 5

It appears to be so.

Is there hope for us?

Probably not. The question begs...how long will it take humans to kill the space ship we live on?

Answer 6

not quite, a virus doesn't have heightened senses, ability to think and be aware of its existence, very primitive life forms indeed. but of course all forms of life including us share virus characteristics which i see as natural and a logical behavior of evolution.

Answer 7

No, that's a narrow view. In organisms it is a general principle that all species produce more individuals than the environment can sustain. Consequently, most species are limited by predation, dietary stress, and disease unless they are able to expand into other environments. Humans have been the most successful animal in this matter.

Answer 8

We share no characteristics with a virus.  All animals reproduce until the environment can't support anymore.  The self-loathing meter just went off the scale.

Answer 9

I get what you mean by that (: But we're a special kind of virus who can think, but whether we act selfishly or selflessly is another question. We have the ability to destroy, as well as to heal and create love. There is good and bad.

The biggest difference? We experience so much emotion. Too much, maybe. When we look at humans as a whole, we're just as tiny as ants. As if god (if there is even one) could crush us all with his left foot if he/she/it felt like it.

But when you magnify a group of ants and the lives they live, you'll realise that all of us are so different, so so much alike. So much to understand.

From millions and millions of miles away it seems like we're doomed, and our little actions are slowly self destructing. From the environment and destroying out host, the earth with the choices we make daily without much thought. At this rate, the viruses will eat into their host, and disaster nears without much knowing.

But when you look closer in and much deeper you'll realise more than you imagined. Pain, sadness, joy, laughter, pleasure, wonder.. and all the memories every one little ant holds. We are viruses with emotional depth. And the best part is that they know it, they remember it, and they carry it with them til the day they die.

And there are the zombie like people. People who somehow forget to take a second to ponder about the world, our lives. But someday, maybe they'll realise... Viruses may experience life changing events that will shift their mindsets.

And when one of these little viruses die, the viruses close to them will cry. Or mourn. But they will be happy again when they regain the bounce in their steps. And if the host dies, more than just the entire virus wil die, but also the memories and love and burden they have carried with then for so long.. all wiped out.

Oh and there might even be afterlife... :p

Answer 10

I never thought of it that way. I guess we are like viruses.  Although I don't think humans will eventually live off mars because Mars is mostly carbon dioxide and composed of very little oxygen. Here's what I think will happen, humans will eventually use all of Earth's resources and the human race will ceast to exist since there's probably no way humans can move from Earth.

Answer 11

I disagree.  The majority of microorganisms on Earth do not actually kill the hosts they infect.  It's a bad idea for your own survival to kill your source of food and energy, after all.  Cold viruses, for example, don't kill you unless your immune system is severely compromised.

Drug resistant superbugs being the exception rather than the rule.

Humans are just as much animals of this earth as every other life form.  We figure we're unique in that we can reason and understand our world and our impact on it (which we can't seem to agree on!) but even the amount that other species are aware of their environments is hotly debated.