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The problem with this is that is non-consensual. People have a right to decide if genetically modified organisms will be flying around in their ecosystem.
by rgrieselhuber 5y ago
The problem with this is that is non-consensual. People have a right to decide if genetically modified organisms will be flying around in their ecosystem.
- renewiltord 5y agoYou’re right, but people keep foisting their genetic chimeras on us in the name of “children” and stuff like that.
- kickout 5y agoNo more than they have a right to decide if a chemical is applied to a water aquifer or a pesticide is sprayed in a different locale and then drifts over. Direct democracy type approaches have never been a good (or even correct) model for these kinds of decisions. If it were, my community would prefer no synthetic chemicals come into contact with my local environment (plastics, textiles fabrics, herbicides, etc.)
- rgrieselhuber 5y agoAgreed. They don't have a right to pollute water sources with toxic chemicals.
- _zywo 5y agoWho's "people"? The state? A democratic vote? The individual? The problem with mosquito-borne diseases is that they're non-consensual. People have a right to live without mosquito-borne disease.
- rgrieselhuber 5y agoHuman beings who have lived in a state of nature. When there are medical cures to mosquito-borne diseases available, the patient can choose to take it or not take it. This foisting of treatments on people without their consent creates very dangerous precedents.
- whimsicalism 5y agoThe state of nature is a construct, there is no base "state of nature." These mosquitoes are only here because humans brought them here.
- rgrieselhuber 5y agoThere is a big difference between how ecosystems change through human and animal migration and technocratic "solutions" that usher in a whole new level of medical invasiveness.
- chaxor 5y agoHere we see a gaggle of gpt models, endlessly duking it out for the public, such that they may casually dismiss or ignore their arguments. - HN tour guide Attenborough
- idiotsecant 5y agoOh? What difference would that be? If I intend to add or remove a species from somewhere is that somehow worse than if I accidentally add or remove a species from somewhere? In what way?
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- outworlder 5y ago> People have a right to decide if genetically modified organisms will be flying around in their ecosystem. Why do you care? Nature is 'genetically modifying' stuff all the time. That's how you exist. They won't have superpowers or grow to Godzilla proportions. They are just different. Think of them as a different mosquito species. I can't recall signing a form allowing nature to fly mosquitos past me.
- pvaldes 5y ago> Why do you care? Because fixing it later is really expensive. Ask the cane toad fans