I just thought I’d write a short little update about this quote I saw the other day.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

Yeah. I hate to say it for fear of sounding ridiculously elitist, everything about this quote seems ignorant and plain dumb. First of all, computer viruses are nothing like life. Secondly, viruses are not purely destructive.

Thirdly, and this is the point that I find hilarious: he’s saying we have created something that is purely destructive and asserts that we have created it in our own image. I understand that it’s probably more of a word choice problem, but honestly. Honestly.

He sets up a completely flawed premise that viruses = life, then mangles it further just to say something overly pessimistic about human nature.

Created purely destructive life in our own image. Right.