• Toes♀@ani.social
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    10 months ago

    It’s societal cancer, imagine an organism that allows a few cells to monopolize most of the nutrients. You’d cut it out to save the host, but this has metastasized. The immune system has been reprogrammed to defend the cancer.

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      10 months ago

      You don’t want cells to have the freedom to live the lives they want! You bio communist!

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      10 months ago

      To keep within biology: the host dies and others with the same vulnerability. The ones immune to this survive and gobble up what remains of the previous hosts. Everybody stands around wondering how this could’ve happened.