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Modifying ourselves leads into the messy territory of bodily autonomy and consent. You can see this pretty well in the anti-COVID-vaccine crew. I feel like it'd
by jackson1442 6y ago
Modifying ourselves leads into the messy territory of bodily autonomy and consent. You can see this pretty well in the anti-COVID-vaccine crew. I feel like it'd be much more popular to modify mosquitos than apply some modification to humans.
Not to mention the ethical (regarding equity) concerns: disease from mosquitoes affects poverty-stricken areas the most, yet the people with the most access to these bodily modifications or procedures are going to be from wealthy countries.
- jcims 6y agoMosquitoes are a rather distinct element in the natural world and it just seems unlikely that we are capable of understanding the full set of downstream effects of eradicating them entirely.
- bamboozled 6y agoI actually was talking about our behavior, not our actual genetics or biology. My understanding is that a lot of the diseases we want to kill mosquitoes for are also more likely to affect people in developing countries.
- andreareina 6y agoThere are few developed countries in the tropics. Singapore is one, and dengue is a concern here. I understand that the way it's mostly kept under control is through a lot of spraying, which isn't exactly great.