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Why if instead of spending money researching the diseases that mosquitos could transmit to humans on the future we spend all that money into figuring out a way
by kafkaesq 10y ago
Why if instead of spending money researching the diseases that mosquitos could transmit to humans on the future we spend all that money into figuring out a way to exterminate all mosquitos from the surface of earth once and for all?
As if that were somehow... easier, or even more tractable?
They're arguably (much) better optimized for long-term survival than we are, you know.
- otto_ortega 10y agoIt doesn't have to be easier, if progress in science were dictated based on what's easier to do, there wouldn't be much progress (if any) at all. It's a matter of what's better for our suvival as a specie.
- kafkaesq 10y agoI was referring to the fact that no one even knows if it's possible to do this yet. Not whether it would be easy or hard (or ethical) to do so.