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Great monologue, shaky biology.

Viruses do not multiply endlessly. Most viruses exist in stable ecological cycles.

Most viruses are beneficial to life. We complain about the few (and tiny minority of viruses) that infect humans and we do so from a selfish perspective, but forget about all the other that make life and evolution possible.

As a matter of fact evolution favors reduced lethality in many cases because wiping out hosts is bad for viral survival.

Agent Smith is way off on this one ...

>>DataDi+(OP)
The bit about mammals is wildly off base too. Boom and bust dynamics are built into most animal populations (i.e. red tailed deer in the northeastern US). Pretty much the only examples I can think of that don't experience those cycles live in very isolated environments like caves or have very long lifespans and large parental investment but even then the dynamic is only dampened, not eliminated entirely.