[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Viruses are incapable of living and reproducing outside the host cell. Even if I extend the extremely-generous olive branch of treating Viruses as "self-replicating Life", you can't have Predators without Prey.

[Right Wing Professor]

you can't have Predators without Prey.

Is that another law? Have you then abandoned 'omne vivum e vivo'?

[Right Wing Professor]

Viruses are incapable of living and reproducing outside the host cell

By the way, this is no longer true. Cell-free systems have been developed that allow viruses to replicate.

[VadeRetro]

BTW, you don't seem to appreciate what a marvelous clue to the origins of life viruses are. The idea has been around for some time that viruses might be evidence for (and living descendants of) RNA-World. The discovery of Mimivirus has bolstered that hypothesis.