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Why do we have an innate reaction of disgust/horror when we see an image of a virus? It should just be abstract geometry to us, given we never evolved to see that small and it's only using recent technology that we can. Is it ancestral memory from when we were single celled organisms?
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>>16885845

Dunno, trained biologist so my "disgust response" is pretty much overwritten. But looking at the thing I notice a resemblance with a tick, or similar blood-sucking insect. An intrinsic aversion here would run back well to our ape ancestors.
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>>16885845
I don't, I think they look cool
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>>16885845
>we
just you libtard
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>>16885845
>Why do we have an innate reaction of disgust/horror when we see an image of a virus?
do we? I don't. even when I saw that as a kid. I thought it looked cool.
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>>16885845
>we
what is this we magatard?
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>>16885845
>Why do we have an innate reaction of disgust/horror when we see an image of a virus?
we do?
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>>16885845
So minimalistic, it's an abstract art to the cell membrane. Like sperm.
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>>16885845
Because it looks like a robotic spider. Spiders are scary and robots are soulless.
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>>16885845
to me it looks like old school robotics/mechanics, aka human made and old school
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>>16886294
>just you libtard
Why don't you weirdos stay in pol and stop cosplaying science
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>>16885845
it look like bug dumbass.
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We have an innate reaction of horror whenever we encounter this sign and it is even more abstract than the virus.
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>>16886697
no we don't.
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>>16885845
Viruses look different depending on family it belongs to. Also viruses don't really look like abstract shapes. Viruses are really tiny, like we are talking nanometers, so they often simply the design in illustrations.



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