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Huh, no they can't. Reducing malaria deaths can be extremely immoral depending on how it's done. And this is no mere academic problem. Some attempts to eradicat
by origin_path 4y ago
Huh, no they can't. Reducing malaria deaths can be extremely immoral depending on how it's done. And this is no mere academic problem. Some attempts to eradicate malaria have been ethically dubious e.g. bulk spraying whole areas with anti-malarial drugs. If it works, great, you eradicate it (in that area). If it doesn't you just bred and unleashed drug-resistant malaria on whole populations.
- User23 4y agoMalaria is a great example. The USA used to have endemic malaria as far north as New York. It was eradicated by the CDC carpet bombing the country with DDT[1]. Was that a good thing? I’m inclined to believe that on the balance it was, but there’s no denying that mass spraying pesticides had negative consequences. The question then is how do we determine if that action was justified? [1] https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history