I'm curious to know whether people think of a virus as being "alive" or at the very least, a lifeform?
Actually, I'm more interested in people's reasoning for their position on the life status of a biological virus.
Now, with that in mind, I'm also interested in what people think about computer viruses and their status as compared to a biological virus.
If you consider a virus to be alive, would you theoretically hold the same position for a compter virus or not, and why do you have the same or the opposite view?
Of course, if you don't consider a biological virus to be a living thing, I guess it doesn't matter. Unless you consider compter viruses to be living and not biological ones, but that's a highly unorthodox opinion. (Cue the woo?)