I'm not surprised at this argument at all, it's guaranteed to come up given the nature of hacker news commenters. Which is why I said even the armchair critic

I'm not surprised at this argument at all, it's guaranteed to come up given the nature of hacker news commenters. Which is why I said even the armchair criticism from cynical misanthropes who consider human deaths resulting from this species a good thing "because humans are bad for the environment" - while these mosquitoes do cause a lot of human deaths, the environmental "benefit" of those deaths are completely meaningless in the grand scheme of things)