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Well, mosquitos are a natural part of ecology on the planet. They've been around for long before humans. As with most other animals, mosquitos are predator to o
by extheat 5y ago
Well, mosquitos are a natural part of ecology on the planet. They've been around for long before humans. As with most other animals, mosquitos are predator to other living organisms, and that helps to keep the prey population in balance. Humans are part of their prey, and they're evolutionarily good at scenting humans out. Nobody questions our ability to wipe out human "predators" like mosquitoes, just that there is obviously a cascading ecological effect since it's not just humans they go after. On the topic of leeches to the planet: let's present the elephant in the room, the Human.
- philwelch 5y agoYou want humans to go extinct? OK, you first.
- birdyrooster 5y agoIf there was a way to guarantee that you would also go, I would do it.
- tripleSex 5y agoThis is appalling.
- birdyrooster 5y agoThis is standard brinksmanship.
- philwelch 5y agoThis is also the plot of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six.
- dTal 5y agoWhat do you value, if not human life? What ethical system can possibly sustain this viewpoint?
- PretzelPirate 5y agoTaking a longer term view: I’ll be dead within 60 years and am not having children, so I guess I’m helping us go extinct.