Is It Time to Treat Something as Part of You or Is It Time to Banish Something?

Virus and cancer are kind of interchangeable in a way that i think is one weird and two telling because here we have viruses which as you'd note actually do constitute a rather large percentage of what we regard as the self. There are questions about the early evolution of single-celled and multicellular life that suggests that the virus may have been much more instrumental in our early advancements if you want to put them in that way. But then on the other side it's like here's cancer which is this thing that is you in a much more obvious sort of first-pass sense that we're treating as something outside of ourselves so i want to make sure that we get to your actual ritual