Talk:The Loophole/@comment-4037078-20190111033347

Several problems with Bobert's logic:

1. While bacteria and other micro-organisms are classified as life, Viruses are not living nor considered life, as they do not classify under any of the three domains (bacteria, achaea, eukaryota) of which all life is classified. They are more like little RNA machines. The main reason behind this classification is because viruses cannot reproduce. Like a parasite, they inject their RNA into a living cell, which "hacks" it and turns it into a virus factory. Viruses don't use energy or have a metabolism, are not cells, are just an RNA core in a protein shell, they do now grow, produce waste, or even respond to stimuli. Whatever classification system Bobert is using to decide what is and isn't life, it had to be designed by humans, and the biologists who create and maintain the very phylogenetic classifications Bobert is using agree that Viruses are not alive. So bobert cannot protect viruses. Bacteria and parasites are fine.

2. "Protect all life" necessarily forbids eliminating a form of life, so the "solution" of eliminating mankind is illogical no matter how you approach it. I'm kind of annoyed at how long it took them to figure that out, as it's so obviously illogical; the second they heard that Bobert was preparing to destroy human life to protect all life, the automatic response should have been "...but mankind is life"

3. New Mexico law does not apply in...wherever Elmore is. Only federal law and the state law of wherever Elmore is apply to Elmore's locale. Bobert clearly doesn't understand how law works, and enforcing something he doesn't understand is illogical.